Document Management - Anywhere

Our newest offering at Printer Connection is not a printer at all.

Our PCI Solutions joint venture is seeking and presenting tools for today's market for the life of the information bound up in the legacy of the path of documents.

Or, as I wanted to say on a phone call with a vendor yesterday - "Huh? What did you just say?"

In plain words, folks are not printing nearly as much now as they did in the past, and they would like to print even less. Why? The customer preference statistics are clear with all the mobile devices (pocket computers/portals), ubiquitous email and web-enabled avenues for communication - and it's cheaper to send an email with a PDF or a web-address than a bill or statement in a letter.

Part of the promise of 'electrifying' the document is good electronic filing, recovery and re-use. Part of the solution needs to be in saving it and finding it later.

Welcome Fortis and FortisBlue from Westbrook Technologies to the product lineup available from Printer Connection and PCI Solutions.

Fortis is a powerful enterprise content management software solution that electronically captures, stores, and organizes documents, data, images, etc., thus enabling immediate and reliable access to critical information whenever and wherever it's needed. Fortis promotes efficient knowledge sharing by allowing easy retrieval, editing, annotating, and distribution of documents. Quickly obtain the decision-making information you need and provide superior service to clients, customers, and partners.

FortisBlue is a browser-based content management software solution that captures, archives, searches, annotates, retrieves and safeguards paper and electronic documents and data. It is accessible from the Internet or an intranet making it an affordable solution, of particular value for first-time users of content management.

Our blog has covered PlanetPress and PP Capture in previous entries. FortisBlue integrates with PlanetPress Capture and allows significantly powerful management of all PP documents with thin-client or mobile network of all authorized document access.

We are excited to add this strong technology to our growing list of "Print Less and Print Better" offerings.... ok, I'll say it since everyone else does --- SOLUTIONS.

For more information, contact Warren Neeley at wneeley@pciprinters.com or 817-939-5614.

Thermal Is About to Heat Up Around Here

Printronix has achieved some great growth in the industrial distribution marketplace with their midrange thermal product, the Printronix T4M. This sweet little T4M is a cutthroat competitor against the market leader Zebra. Customers that complete a head-to-head comparo with this engineering marvel are switching to the Printronix model in droves.

Source Technologies, the reliable provider of MICR laser printers, has now entered the thermal battlefield with an inventive line of thermal printers that, for the first time in the industry, print with the simple and standard language of PCL. The Source Technologies STp.1125, STp.1120n, and STp.1115 printers offer a very high quality output at 300 dpi and several new setup and calibration features to make the "care and feeding" of the unit more "knucklehead-proof".

We look forward to our vendors' help and our customer discussions to find opportunities for these great options in label printing.