InterForm400 ® e Forms & Intelligent Output Management for IBM AS/400, iSeries & i5.

InterForm400®

eForms & Intelligent Output Managementfor IBM AS/400, iSeries & i5

InterForm400- Intelligent Output Management

Fax distribution

IOM -Intelligent Output Management

Formatted Spool Files

Zebra label printer

Std. Laser printer

E-mail distribution

Document Archiving

For easy designing of forms

“Drag & Drop” formatting of spool data

Interfaces directly with the AS/400 software

Forms creation (1) via PC Graphical Designer

Flash Movie

Sub-formsUse of sub-overlays is also possible, ideal forheaders, footers and marketing campaigns

Forms creation (2)

Windows compatibility Import designs from any Windows application.

Print Preview

WYSIWYG viewing of forms and spool data is an integrated part of InterForm400

5250 Emulation

Design directly on the AS/400

SCS Spool Data

Mr. Johnson Printer Supply Inc.42, Falcon Street Tel.: +99 88 77 66Bayview 5555 Fax: +99 88 77 55Country [email protected]

Invoice

Article Spec. # Amount

15871 Laser Printer 1 1,000.-



15874 Laser Printe 1 4,000.-

15875 LED Printer NEW 1 5,000.-

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,000.-

White paper

Water marks

COPY

E-form Elements

Lines and frames

Text Constants:Company name,address, tel. no. etcPart no. Description Quantity Price

Customer Delivery Address

Mr. Johnson42, Falcon StreetBayview 5555

Formattedspool data







1234567Invoice #“Fancy” FontsAny font available inyour printer, or imported from your PC (TTF)

Inverted text

Total USD 15,000.-

Bar codeswith contents captureddfrom the spool data

Conditional ElementsVariable data determinegraphics and/or text(The word ”LED” triggers the illustration and text)

Always the latest LED models !

LogosImported from PC

Dyn

amic

Bu

ild

-up

of

des

ign

Total freedom in formatting, re-positioning and rotating spool data using scalable fonts and barcodes

Rotation

of data

30, 90, 120, 180, 210, 270 degrees

Standard SCS output

Formatted with font,

alignment and positioning

Formatting of Spool Data

Formatting of Spool Data - Barcode support

• Code 3 of 9 (39)

• Code 128 (EAN128)

• EAN8, EAN12, EAN13

• PDF417 (2-dimentional)

• Postnet

• OCR-A

• OCR-B

Copy management lets you print copies of the original spool data in other departments with e.g. a COPY sign as Watermark

Copy management

COPY 1

COPY 2

Multi-Up saves paper

4 Spool pagesAdam

Bruce

Chris

Dennis

1 PrintAdam Bruce

Chris Dennis

Multi-up feature

Advanced spool handling features such as Sorting, Grouping and Splitting are standard features in InterForm400

SortingAdam

Bruce

Chris

Dennis

Eric

GroupingAdam

Arnold

Bruce

Bernhard

Chris

Charles

SplittingBruce

Bernhard

Spool handling

Call of programs enables extract and insertion of additional information

Data Retrieval

Mr. Johnson Printer Supply Inc.42, Falcon Street Tel.: +99 88 77 66Bayview 5555 Fax: +99 88 77 55Country [email protected]

Company Number: XY00159

Invoice

Article Spec. # Amount




15874 Laser Printe 1 4,000.-


Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,000.-

Look upAtt.: Mr. John Smidth

Extracted info.

Fax distribution



Zebra label printer

Std. Laser printer

E-mail distribution

Document Archiving

AutoFormsControl lets you automate the merge process of individual spool pages with specific forms and following the required distribution methods

Automatic Processing

Automatic Processing

PCLFiles

Image

FormsBar

codes

Fonts

InterForm400Ressources

AS/400Application

Output queues

Writers

Devices

PRT02PRT01Sub-SystemSub-System

PRT02*PRTWTR

PRT01*RMTWTR

Dev *3812IP (LPR)

LAN Twinax/PCPCLSCS

With device attached

PRT01_in PRT02_in ”Input Queue”Without device attached

InvoiceInvoice15871 Laser Printer 1 1,000.-





Total USD 15,000.-


SalesDepartment

Book-keepingDepartment

COPY

InvoiceInvoice







COPY

InvoiceInvoice







COPY

InvoiceInvoice







DispatchDepartment

LabelsLabels15871

Laser Printer

15871

Laser Printer

15871

Laser Printer

15871

Laser Printer

15871

Laser Printer

WAN

AS/400

UserWorkstation

UserWorkstation

Distributed print

Unlimited number of PCL printers are supported.(Twinax, LAN or PC attached)

Drawer control Multiple output bins Duplex & Color printing

- are supported!

Zebra thermal printers with ZPL emulation are supported

Multiple printers supported

Runs as a background process without any need of making changes to the ERP system and fully transparent to the users

Users Transparency

Fax distribution



Zebra label printer

Std. Laser printer

E-mail distribution

Document Archiving

Integrated E-mail Distribution

Automatic distribution of documents via E-mail

Directly from the iSeries or via a PC mail server

Integrated e-mail system

Custom e-mail templatesDefinition name . . . . : EMAIL

Description . . . . . . : InterForm400 - E-mail defintion

E-mail text version . . : OCONFIRM01

Description . . . . . . . Order Confirmation 001

E-mail subject . . . . . . Order Confirmation *V1 - Your ref. *V2

E-mail text . . . . . . .

Dear Mr. *V3

As per your P.O. Nr. *V2, please find our attached

Order Confirmation Nr. *V4

Best Regards

*FROM

Intermate A/S

PDF-file name . . . . . . OConfirm_*V4.pdf

F3=Exit F12=Cancel

Definition name . . . . : EMAIL

Description . . . . . . : InterForm400 - E-mail defintion

E-mail text version . . : OCONFIRM01

Description . . . . . . . Order Confirmation 001

E-mail subject . . . . . . Order Confirmation *V1 - Your ref. *V2

E-mail text . . . . . . .

Dear Mr. *V3

As per your P.O. Nr. *V2, please find our attached

Order Confirmation Nr. *V4

Best Regards

*FROM

Intermate A/S

PDF-file name . . . . . . OConfirm_*V4.pdf

F3=Exit F12=Cancel

Result

Integrated e-mail system

Attachment’s are in genuine, searchable PDF format

Fax distribution



Zebra label printer

Std. Laser printer

E-mail distribution

Document Archiving

Fax Distributio

n

Email Distribution

WAN

AS/400User

Workstation

Automated Distribution Centre

Label Printing

LabelsLabels15871

Laser Printer

15871

Laser Printer

15871

Laser Printer

15871

Laser Printer

15871

Laser Printer

Laser Printing

Fax distribution


Zebra label printer Std. Laser

printer

E-mail distribution

Document Archiving

InterArchive400- Intelligent Spool Archiving for InterForm400

Why use an archiving solution

Increased customer satisfaction Instant access to all documents

Personalized answers

Increased filling quality Simultaneous access to the same document

Eliminated the risk of loosing documents

Enrich your IT environment



Reduce cost Reduce the physical space needed for the archiving

Eliminated multiple copies of the same document

Reduces cost and time consumption used for manually retrieve hardcopy documents

Increased productivity Facilitate quick exchange of information

Reducing time for searching documents

Reduce administrative labor



Because it fits with the business strategies of today

Focusing on customers – Reaction time Increasing Output – Efficiency Reduce cost


Return on Investment < 1 yearReturn on Investment < 1 year

Document Type Customer Number Date Customer ref. Total

Order Confirmation 568956 2357895 12-11-2000 02456 800,00

Record in InterArchive

1 AutoHause GmbH AutoHause GmbH

Nürnburgring 1 Nürnburgring 1

D-123456 Hansastadt D-123456 Hansastadt

Germany Germany

568956 568956

Att.: Andrew McDee Confirmation of Order 2357895

Date 10-11-2000 Date 12-11-2000

DHL Your ref. 02456

Dear Sirs,

We hereby confirm your order for the following items, as per your

below-mentioned order:

02456 Intermate 100, w. TN5250e 20-11-2000 3 150.00 750.00

(with US power supply)

01348 IPDS Client 20-11-2000 1 50.00 50.00

NOTE: please forward serial number of

the harddisk, for which the software are

to be installed.

800.00 0 0.00 USD 800.00

1 AutoHause GmbH AutoHause GmbH

Nürnburgring 1 Nürnburgring 1

D-123456 Hansastadt D-123456 Hansastadt

Germany Germany

568956 568956

Att.: Andrew McDee Confirmation of Order 2357895

Date 10-11-2000 Date 12-11-2000

DHL Your ref. 02456

Dear Sirs,

We hereby confirm your order for the following items, as per your

below-mentioned order:

02456 Intermate 100, w. TN5250e 20-11-2000 3 150.00 750.00

(with US power supply)

01348 IPDS Client 20-11-2000 1 50.00 50.00

NOTE: please forward serial number of

the harddisk, for which the software are

to be installed.

800.00 0 0.00 USD 800.00

Indexing info. from Source Spool file

Created PDF file from InterForm400

Spool File Archiving - Example of InterArchiving

Spool File Archiving

Retrieved PDF file from InterArchive

E-mail distribution

Distribution to printer

Via PC network

Via Spool system

Features of InterArchive400

1) Storage in the universal format, namely PDF.

2) Indexing for quick retrieval.

3) Re-indexing of the Archive data-base, to comply with the

requirements of the future.

4) Archiving in the IFS or other server technology in the network,

ensuring tight security and cost effective storage

5) Re-print of stored PDF documents via the iSeries spool system.

6) Web-based Graphical User Interface

7) Preview of the stored PDF documents in the free Acrobat Reader,

enabling quick distribution to 3rd. party.


E-forms & Intelligent Output Management

for IBM iSeries & i5



InterWord400For Letter Distribution



Develop your Letter Templates in:

Word

WordPerfect

StarOffice

or in any other word processor supporting Rich Text Format (RTF)



10.569,00

Sources data is retreived from

Physical files

&

Queries

Poul D. Christiansen

Kongevejen 194a

DK-3460 Birkeroed

Denmark

Date: 11.09.2002

.&LTRTOT

.&LTRNAM

.&LTRAD1

.&LTRAD2

.&LTRAD3

.&LTRAD4

Date: .&*DATE

Re.: Outstanding Payments

Dear Sirs,

According to our records a payment of $ is over due. We kindly ask you to settle the payment immediately.

Should you have initiated the payments in question, please ignore this letter.



Advanced use:

Use command files for conditional call of

variables and text sections..&LTRNAM .&LTRAD2 .&LTRAD3 .&LTRAD4

Date: .&*DATE

Re.: Outstanding Payments

Dear Sirs,

According to our records a payment of $ .&LTRTOT is over due. We kindly ask you to settle the payment immediately.

Should you have initiated the payments in question, please ignore this letter.

Yours faithfully Intermate Technology Group

.&LTRNUM



InterWord400

• Native AS/400 mail merge functionality• Enables user customized mass mailings via MS Word

templates• Enables use of queries or data base files for retrieval of

customer information• Enables mass distribution via print or via e-mail• Utilises the AS/400 spool system for printing



Benefits using InterForm400

Save TimeOptimize routines and reduce manual labour going from an to printers and fax machines. Avoid running out of pre-printed forms

Flexibility & Adaptability

Easy update of the product, according to company growth and changes

SimplicityAll your forms are printed on the same white paper

Corporate image Improve corporate image using logos, slogan… on all your forms

Document readabilityImprove documents readability through consistent use of customised forms, barcodes, signatures and logos ( road map, shipment form…)

Money saved on pre-printed paperNo more pre-printed paper used

Savings on administration Use copy management features and distributed print.

Work continuity: ProductivitySave time changing paper in printers. Document created directly from spool files and printed on the right printer.

Flexibility & adaptabilityAvoid waste of pre-printed stock when changes are required

Reduced facsimile and postage costsConvert documents to PDF and send them by E-mail.

Reduce expenses on consultancyRetrieve additional information via User programs.

Financial Benefits(ROI – Return on Investment < 12 months)

Financial Benefits(ROI – Return on Investment < 12 months)

Cost of Manually handling documents Unit TotalNumber of documents per Year 10.000 € €

Printing cost 10.000 0,01 100

Postage cost 3.333 0,55 1.833

Fascimile cost 6.666 0,05 333

Manual Handling 10.000 1,00 10.000

Cost for pre-printed forms 10.000 0,005 50

Savings going to e-mail in total 12.266

Savings on new IPDS printers 0 850,00 0

Savings in Total 12.266

1500 InterForm400 licenses have been sold to this date.

Testimonials and forms examples are available.

Reference List

InterForm400 Summary

InterForm400 – Features

Applications included with InterForm400

Graphical Designer JAVA based application, running a PC interfacing directly with the AS/400. enables easy forms design and spool file formatting. loads all spool pages for correct formatting of documents with diff. page

layout.

PCL-Viewer enables viewing of forms designs from an 5250 environment enables viewing of formatted print from an 5250 output queue

5250 software Import and export functions for remote support and sharing of forms and

spool files Native 5250 drivers for all output formats like PCL, PDF, Fax TIFF and ZIP

(No PC driver overlay resources, for an easy transition.

InterForm400 – Features

Design Interface JAVA Client for design and ”Drag & Drop” spool formatting Import of designs from PC applications Green Screen design interface WYSIWYG viewing of forms and formatted spools in the OUTQ

Spool Formatting Formatting in terms of positioning, fonts, rotation etc. Conditional formatting handling ”Floating Text” Conversion to Barcodes Copy Management Sorting, Grouping and Splitting of spool files

Output Formats(Native drivers)

PCL for laser printers and archiving ZPL for Zebra Thermal printers PDF for e-mailing and archiving ZIP for compression of stream files.

InterForm400 - Distribution

Distribution Central Sub-system enables distribution of documents to either printers or e-

mail addresses. Call of User Exit programs enables retrieval of additional information

from the host.

Fax Distribution Automatic distribution of InterForm400 documents via fax.

E-mail Distribution Automatic distribution of PDF documents by e-mails from the iSeries

400

Multiple language support Code page support for most language (Unicode support Q2/2006)

Laser Printers Duplex Drawer Control Output Bin Control Stapling Jogging Multi-up

Enveloping Systems Neopost Pitney Bowes BÖWE HEFTER PFE

InterForm400 – Hardware Support

All in all will InterForm400 provide you with:

InterForm400

Improved corporate imageImproved corporate image

Improved work flowImproved work flow

Flexibility & independence Flexibility & independence

Cost savingsCost savings



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