Printers , scanners and MFPs - Dumb Peripheral or Intelligent device ?
Welcome to the home of Serial Data Sdn Bhd . At Serial Data Sdn Bhd , firstly we say repeatedly , Documents are an organization’s lifeblood . Companies communicate with their important customers , provide information about new products and services , collect vital information from their customers , and deal with authorities , government and statutory bodies through correspondence . Even more importantly , documents can be very important like documents that have a direct value such as proof of delivery , cheques , invoices , contracts , or those that have intrinsic value like college degrees , reports , training material and others . In short , documents are vital and at times critical to an organization , and a well thought company document strategy can have meaningful contribution towards a company’s well being.
Peripherals do not need to be peripheral to your business
Secondly , we say peripherals do not need to be peripheral ( marginal ) to your business . Printers , scanners , MFPs and Digital Senders are and should be regarded as the window and door to your vital business data and business information residing in your line of business applications as these intelligent devices almost inevitably handles the input and the output of documents moving within your organization , to your customers , suppliers , regulatory bodies and Government and back again to your organization . At Serial Data Sdn Bhd , we share a wealth of experience gained by dealing with many organizations who have been rethinking output ( printers ) , reevaluating input ( scanners ) and who have sought better ways to handle that interesting new hybrid cousin , the MFP that handles both input –output and more . Some of the many questions customers have asked have included :
Rethinking How Output peripherals can add to your business
- Customer Communications - Can we create more professional
looking documents complete with barcodes , logos , digital
signatures , with minimum programming requirements , and
can we do this quickly even with data coming from legacy
systems ? Can we than add personalization to our
document creation by outputting different messages to
different target groups , based on existing information
found within the output data itself ?
Can we do this : Quickly , at reasonable cost , with minimum
technical challenges and are we able to deal with data
coming from almost any source ? Can we provide data formats
that most systems can provide easily ?
- Automation on Documents - How many
possible ways are there for a company to use automation
on documents to increase productivity and reduce costs
. Among the possible automation possibilities are :
- Use of barcodes on documents to reduce data entry
time and increase accuracy.
- Use of barcodes on documents for bursting and separation
in document imaging.
- Use of barcodes in documents for auto indexing .
- Use of digital signatures to eliminate manual signing
of documents like cheques .
- Use of Postal barcodes for postal sorting .
- Use of OMR marks on documents for Inserting machines
( Mailing Automation )
- Use of Stapling , Automatic Tray selection , Tray
orientation features of Laser printers .
- Use of Conditional Formatting features of Document
Creation tool like Formport Server .
- Thinking about Costs Savings , Control and Discovery
and Overall Better Management of printer fleet - Serial
Data has proven capabilities to help you in all your printing
and document management requirements.
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