i-docs

The complexity of being a Printing House lies both in the reception of multiple printable or unformatted statements and documents, and in the complete processing thereof from reception until mailing.

i-docs™ facilitates Printing Houses in accepting any format that is either printer-ready, or a simple database file from the backoffice. Subsequently, using the formatting procedures of i-docs™, a document can include any kind of general or customized formatting, based on predefined rules.

Finally, aside from the complete edition of i-docs™, the Printing House can accept incoming statements formatted in HTML in order to subsequently format them in PostScript (PS), AFP or PDF, including all of the control features that the printing procedure itself requires.
The following printing modes and features are supported:

• Duplex
• Simplex
• One-Up
• Two-Up
• Continuous Feed / Cut Sheets
• Barcodes
• Barcode Strings
• Global Counters
• OCR Strings
• Data integrity engine that compares the input with the output
• Full roll back and continue functionality
• Automated Graphical user interface
• Grid computing on process level (1 of 10 = 10 of 1
• Distributed databases (transparent on-line access to multiple archived DBs)
• Complete XML architecture with Java implementation

i-docs™ enterprise edition for printing houses is ideally suited for handling thousands of documents and providing the following capabilities:

Storage and Retrieval
Since the Statements are stored in their final format, the Printing house has the possibility of servicing the customer by offering a complete e-billing solution directly on the customer's behalf. Given that the documents are reformattable, they can, if necessary, be returned to the customer to complete the verification and certification procedure.

Intratemporal data consistency
As applications and data formats are changed over time or even the documents themselves, the document database continues to be consistent, searchable and the documents can be reproduced in their original form without data conversions or application modifications.

Easy Administration
The mapping of the input documents into XML schemas as well as the design of the output forms and the definition of the related work flows can be done by non technical personnel with a minimum of training on the available tools included in the solution. In this way the customer of the printing house or the printing house itself can respond quickly to a frequently changing regulatory or business environment.

Auditability
Internal and external auditing mechanisms require that the customer have access both to recent and older documents, can quickly locate specific documents and do a statistical analysis or other kinds of processing on them, as necessary. This is possible and facilitated with the i-docs™ suite.

Compliance and legal service support
Locating specific customer documents ad hoc after a request from legal authorities within a very limited time frame is a time consuming and costly affair. The solution allows easy access, reproduction or electronic transmission of such documents with minimum effort required. The current practice of document's cut and paste in order to produce a complete customer statement, admissible in a court of law as evidence, is one more case where such a solution could greatly help, producing the required document as required automatically.