Below is a summary of our Document Systems Industry Education sessions.
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The Electronic Document Systems industry
- The way we were is why we are
- The market today
Printing Systems
- Technology overview
- Vendors
Mail/print house overview
- The market
- The new breed of print service provider
- Business process and document composition workflow
Data & Character sets
- Single-byte
- Double-byte
- Multi-byte
- Bi-directional
- Unicode
Data Governance
Postal and logistics
- Business considerations
- Postage and saving money on the inevitable
Digital mail delivery
Page Description Languages (PDLs)
- PCC driven line data
- LCDS, Metacode
- PCL
- IPDS, AFPDS
- IJPDS
- PS, PDF, VPS, PPML, VDX, VIPP, JLYT
Typography
- Width, Baseline, Positioning (leading, tracking), Parts of a character
Colour and Colour Management
- RGB, CMYK, tuning for stock/speed
Machine readable symbologies
- Barcodes (linear + 2-dimensional)
- OMR, MICR, OCR
Document creation around the world
- Geography and vertical markets in the USA
- Specific country considerations
“Around” the document creation process
- Other printers (MICR, Security ink/foil, Highlight colour)
- Roll unwinder/rewinder
- Stacker
- Inspection systems
- Burster
- Mail/inserting machines
- Audit, Postal, and Mail processing Reporting
Industry overview & trends
- Outsource vs. in house
- Then vs. now
- “Core business” vs. “Security and control”
- Transpromotional
- What some people say it is and what it really is
- Hybrid mail
- The definitions, the reasons, the opportunity
- Impact of electronic delivery and the new evolution of software solutions
- Communicating with a document without knowing it’s a document
- Impact of ECM, CRM, BPM, BPO, and other TLAs
- Key stakeholders
Expanding services beyond print
- Multi-channel communication
- Web to Print (W2P)
- Content brokering
- QR Code
- PURLs, pURLs, and QURLs
- Individualised content
Industry terms, acronyms, and jargon
Document composition in the service provider space
Vendor specific
- Workflow
- Document composition
- Printing system hardware
- Mailing system hardware
Think Tanks and Workshops
- To assist with technology decisions
- To assist with the development of strategic business directions
