Canon SMARTBOARD BROCHURE

Key Customer Benefits:

• Increases productivity

• Reduces lead times

• Minimises costs

• Reduces risk of errors

• Encourages collaboration

• Complex jobs are made easier

• Open PDF workflow

Versatile workflow suite to enhance the productivity of your monochrome digital production presses

Designed specifically to enhance the capabilities of your Canon production print devices, SmartBoard provides powerful document “make-ready” functionality for the printroom operator. Simple to use, yet sophisticated and robust, it’s ideal for black and white digital production environments where productivity matters.

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Benefits for Print Providers

Maximising printing capabilities - SmartBoard

enables you to quickly submit print-ready files directly to an output device, giving you complete control of your workflow from document creation to output. It’s ideal for applications requiring frequent reprinting, repurposing and editing.

Easy to learn and use - operators will find it easy and quick to learn with minimal training. Documents created with SmartBoard are PDF-based, enabling files to be easily shared with others.

Encourages collaboration with document originators - remote document creation and

collaboration, with customers or pre-press operatives at other locations, is supported through SmartBoard SE, which SmartBoard license owners can distribute free of charge to all their clients.

Flexible job submission - documents can be received in the printroom digitally via job tickets, automated hot folders, and from remote clients, using SmartBoard SE. A job ticket need only be configured once, it can then automatically be saved with the document for future reprints, increasing the efficiency of your operation.

Adding scanned content - SmartBoard supports a wide range of scanners, including those integral to Canon's multi-function printers. Integration of scanners into the production workflow using SmartBoard to receive, edit and submit print content, can help to effectively manage document output, maximising the utilisation and throughput of your digital presses.

Simplifies job assembly - operators can compile jobs effortlessly using SmartBoard’s job assembly features via an intuitive interface with fast ‘drag and drop’ capabilities or ‘point-and-click’ menus. Supporting a variety of file formats, SmartBoard allows page-by-page document organisation with easy page or file insertion and imposition.

Powerful document formatting options

- sophisticated yet simple-to-use editing will bring added power to your print environment. Object area editing lets you cut, move, paste and erase. You can insert photos, mask or reveal areas quickly and accurately within SmartBoard. Once completed, jobs can be previewed on-screen prior to output.

Key features:

• Job submission and assembly

• Scanning support

• Image editing

• Annotation

• Imposition

• Create, edit and print tabs

• Paper catalogue management

• Support for all in-line finishing

SmartBoard – CONFIGURATION OVERVIEW

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• Workflow analysis and optimisation • Installation, configuration and customisation

• Systems integration maintenance and support • Training and development • Flexible finance options

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Easily add new content to pages - using annotation, you can add stamps, watermarks, headers/footers and page numbers to individual pages or to your entire document.

Control print output effortlessly - add value to your document production without compromising productivity. Imposition options within SmartBoard allow you to add chapter dividers, cover pages, insert tabs or create booklets in your pre-press workflow. SmartBoard also supports N-up layout, creep and step control.

Colour splitting capabilities - operators are able to highlight pages so that they are not printed, but instead are added from the post-fuser inserter of Canon’s digital production print devices enabling pre-printed colour sheets to be combined with monochrome pages within a single PDF document.

Advanced media management - SmartBoard supports all advanced media management and finishing operations available on the Canon black and white digital production presses. Features that help to streamline document production include paper catalogue synchronisation, in-line punching, overprinting of tabs, sub-set stapling and perfect binding.

Configurable user interface - for specialised printing environments, SmartBoard’s user interface can be customised to enable automation of repetitive or complex operations, eliminating the potential for human error whilst minimising total production time and costs.

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