Learn How to Efficiently Manage Your Print and Scan Environment - Canon
1. Learn How to Efficiently Manage Your Print and Scan Environment
Dana Mawn
Business Development Consultant
NT-ware USA a Canon Group Company
2. Canon has a single platform solution to address the following:
• Control and reduce your print and copy costs
• Heighten your document security
• Increase your employee productivity
• Improve your environmental performance
• Manage your print room
3. One platform for all your print, scan, and device management, designed
to bring the full value of multi-functional devices to your organization
4. What is uniFLOW?
• uniFLOW is an open platform to manage the print, copy and scan
processes in an organization
• Key functionality includes:
• Secure Printing
• Mobile Printing
• Copy/Print Accounting
• Print Job Routing
• Advanced Scanning
• Device Management
• Print Room Management
5. • How can uniFLOW help to control
your Print and Copy Costs?
6. • Built-in reporting system to track
and assess current print, copy,
fax and scan costs
• Internal costs can be charged
back to cost centers, client matter
codes, departments, etc
• Current usage can be audited
Control and reduce Print & Copy Costs
Printing Intelligence Report
7. • Reroute jobs from expensive laser
printers to more cost effective MFD’s
• Or even to the print room
Route Jobs to the best Device
9. • Grant access rights to the use of various
device functions
• Secure access to your devices
• If necessary, audit the content of the
documents
• Encrypted print jobs over the network
Heighten Document Security
10. • Authentication at the device using e.g.
a proximity card, username/password,
PIN code or job code
• LDAP connection to Active Directory
• Self card registration
• Temporary card policy
Flexible Authentication
12. • uniFLOW Release Station is a vendor-independent touch
screen terminal with embedded card reader for releasing
personal secure print jobs
uniFLOW Release Station
13. How can uniFLOW help to increase
your Employee Productivity?
15. • One Universal Driver for your entire
printer fleet
• Print jobs follow you around the
company, irrespective of make or
model
• Device-independent routing and mobile
printing
uniFLOW Universal Driver
16. • uniFLOW app for iPad®/iPhones®,
Android™ and Windows Phone®
• Apple AirPrint Certified
• Google Cloud Print
• Email submission
Print from Mobile Devices
Android is a trademark of Google Inc.
iPad® iPhone® are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries
Windows Phone is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries
17. • Certified Apple AirPrint® Support
Driverless printing from Mac OS
X® using Apple AirPrint®
Submit jobs directly from the
iPhone® or iPad®
using Apple AirPrint®
20. • One user interface and the
same identification method
for printing & scanning
• No need to teach the user
how to access the device
Unified Secure Print & Scan Interface
23. How can uniFLOW help to improve
your environmental Performance?
24. uniFLOW can help you waste less paper and save
valuable trees by:
• Forcing users to print in double-sided mode
• Deleting jobs that have not been picked up
Improve your Environmental Performance
26. • Print Room operators using a modern print management
system expect:
• Clear information about end-user requirements
• Good overview of all incoming orders
• Convenient Make Ready tool to prepare jobs
• Simple system to get the job done
• Increase of volume in the print room
Print Room Operator Expectations
27. Printer Driver Submission
• Documents are printed to the CRD
using a PostScript printer driver
• After printing a digital job ticket
opens up
• Specify requirements quickly and
accurately
• Convenient way of submitting jobs
• Reducing the risk of errors
28. Central Management of all Jobs
Sort on any criteriaCheck the original job ticket
Open a PDF preview and/or check the preflight result
29. • Simple drag & drop of print jobs to
printers
• Automatically match Job Ticket attributes
• Automatic media sync
• Get device status information
• Load balancing and color split
Printing Jobs in Operator Dashboard
30. • Automatically re-route print jobs from the MFP to the print room
• Show the cost of printing in the CRD and offer that as alternative
• Bring more volume to the print room
• Create awareness of the print room services
• Reduce cost for the company as jobs are printed more
economically on the right devices
Automatic Re-Routing of Print Jobs
32. uniFLOW Advantage
• Fleet wide centralized device management and configuration
• User authentication (Card, PIN, UN & PWD)
• Device and document security
• Statistical Reporting (based on what is output, not what was submitted)
• Secure Printing (follow me printing)
• Mobile Printing (all mobile devices and platforms)
• Secure Scanning (follow me scanning – by user, dept or group)
• Desktop Scanning support (with ScanFront Scanners)
• Rules and Routing for behavior modification
• Desktop Accounting for tracking locally attached printers
• CRD integration for electronic job ticketing and submission
33.
34. How can we help you?
• Scan documents to the applications you use
every day
• Print documents from anywhere to a secure
queue
• Secure documents and devices with existing
authentication methods
• Measure and manage the cost associated
with document output
• Route jobs to the appropriate device
35. One platform for all your print, scan, and device management, designed
to bring the full value of multi-functional devices to your organization
Canon has developed their latest MFP line with uniFLOW integration in mind that allows us to offer even more functionality and integration with the applications you use every day
We have always excelled in the office with follow you printing and reporting. Where our platform has evolved has been in the addition of these other areas to provide a true single platform solution.
Again its an single platform (you will hear me say that a lot) here are a few of the feature we will talk about today and of course feel free to jump in and ask questions at any time. I want this to be as interactive as possible.
The built in uniFLOW reporting engine can customize and automate reporting on print, copy, scan and fax activity. Any report we generate can be broken down by organization, location, building, department, group, user and of course device.
Rules based routing is a module that gives you the ability to route jobs to the least cost device by the feather or the hammer approach
How many of you have iphones or android device with a passcode? Why?
Security and a customized experience
We will talk about the different methods of identification on the next slide.
Multiple identities
This should really say controlled printing from anywhere. We don’t really want everyone printing from every device they have and driving up costs.
This is a key feature of uniflow for a few reasons.
Single print driver to manage
Single interface for end users
The ability to have your job print correctly at any device regardless of manufacturer or features
This was a long painful process with apple but we are now the only vendor in our industry with this certification. What this gives us is the ability to make the print server (running uniFLOW) to be the airprint server thus giving us the ability to make ANY printer that is on the print server airprint available
The most common here is proximity card however we are seeing people take advantage of the fact they can use their mobile device to manage their print queue
This is the interface set up for PIN code authentication. This is completely customizable and because we use the universal driver we can no make changes right at the device.
Forgot color?
Want to add stapling?
Want to adjust copies?
Of course all multi-function copiers come with scanning capability and the ability to scan to folders and more and more the ability to scan to other applications.
With the uniFLOw capture module we can scan directly to these applications while also managing your identities and tying it to you primary login method such as proximity card
unifLOW capture also gives you the ability to cconvert scans to editable formats and utilize the OCR engine to read barcodes and route jobs, index key information through zonal OCR
This ticket can be set up several ways
Pop-up
Email
Web interface