Product Overview - LaserNet

- is a Document Production and Management System.

AutoFORM LaserNet is a software utility which runs on a Windows Server. It allows an organisation to process spool files, E-mail or FTP files containing ASCII, XML, CSV, SAPSCRIPT or Tagged Fields and create electronic forms, labels or XML output. It is suitable for departmental use or enterprise-wide deployment involving many different sites and applications.

Output Management

Operating Platforms and Systems Supported
AutoFORM LaserNet operates as a multi-user application on a Windows Server

Support And Speed

We regularly support in excess of 100 active printers from a single server.
There is no limit to the number of different computer systems or users that can address a LaserNet server.
LaserNet can process data in excess of 600 pages per minute.
Large batch printing does not delay the printing of individual documents or labels.

Programming Tools
AutoFORM allows you to take control of creating and maintaining your companies documentation in-house. The Windows programming tools use a split screen "drag and drop" facility. The colour coding allows users to quickly identify operations that have been performed. This means programmers can return to a definition in months to come and instantly assess how it has been configured. The informative directory structure and numerous shortcuts allow for the creation of very large manageable builds on one server.

All the basic functions can be mastered in one days training.

The form definition tools allow you to define how your spool file data is identified. Based on this identification the print is processed as individual pages or as a job, the overlays are added and the data is mapped, formatted and manipulated.
Working offline with real data you build up a series of form definitions and these are then compiled onto the service task and are ready for action as required.

Artwork - Templates and Overlays
AutoFORM LaserNet integrates with any windows design package including MS Publisher and MS Word. This allows you to delegate document creation to marketing/administrative departments and foreign countries. (Try writing the titles on a Chinese or Korean Invoice)
Elements which are common to several documents are designed once and used across a series of forms. If you change a telephone number or a logo, a single change in the design software can be implemented across. your entire Electronic Forms inventory in a matter of minutes.

Key Functions

Can be implemented with no changes to the application programme / output
Distribute finished forms to where they are required
Drive any Windows printer, including Laser printer, Matrix printer, Thermal Label printer
Unique conditional data re-arrange facility
Re-pagination of standard system output
Page compression with dynamic page numbering
Use ODBC to add data that is not present in the spool file from external databases
Supports advanced calculations
Supports Unicode / Double Byte languages, e.g. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Cyrillic
Dynamic insertion of variable images e.g. Product Pictures, CAD Outlines
Full support for Bar-codes including 2D & 3D bar-codes and Fonts
Call and action external programmes
Supports dynamic conversion of numeric symbols e.g. 1,000.99 = 1.000,99
Authorised support for Export Forms (SITPRO)

Data We Can Work With

Spool files
ASCII
ODBC
CSV
EDI
XML
FTP
SAP LPD
SAP RDI