Optimus to launch new partnership solutions

Optimus is to use the DPW exhibition to show several important additions to its MIS line up, including a price list estimating interface ideally suited to the digital sector.

Optimus will use the DPW exhibition to showcase several important additions to its MIS line up, including a price list estimating interface ideally suited to the digital sector, and will be joined on its stand by a major new partner - ROI Distribution.

The new partnership, announced today, will add an exciting dimension to the Optimus portfolio, as sales director Steve Richardson explains.

"ROI has a proven track record in supplying variable data web-to-print solutions to a host of industry leading digital equipment vendors such as Xerox, Hewlett Packard and Canon," says Mr Richardson.

"This combination of Optimus MIS and ROI product solutions will deliver a level of integration that the digital print sector has been demanding for some time." Visitors to the Optimus stand at DPW will be able to see demonstrations of a full suite of web-to-print solutions from ROI Distribution, including globally acclaimed products such as XRALLE and PAGEFLEX, which streamline all aspects of web-to-print variable data production.

Also new on the Optimus stand will be Optimus 2020 QuickSmart, which represents a huge step forward in MIS technology and features.

Optimus 2020 QuickSmart (QS) builds on the 24 years of MIS experience gained by Optimus since it launched the industry's first MIS modules in 1982, and incorporates several major changes.

These include improved auditing and work-in-progress capabilities, greater support for fast turnaround jobs and for group functionality.

The easy capture of unplanned costs and extras is also an integral part of a new improved digital Optimus QS solution.

In addition, Optimus will be demonstrating a major new estimating interface called Price List Estimating (PLE), which has been specifically developed to cater for the speed, changes and demands of a modern digital environment.

The new interface enables the fast creation of estimates and jobs for any type of product, while at the same time providing production route choices.

PLE, in combination with Optimus QS, will facilitate integration with a host of digital equipment.

Other new products on the stand will include Optimus Analysis, a unique method of interrogating the data in Optimus 2020 to provide valuable information in an innovative interactive style that can be used to question strategies and grow the business.

In addition to its core product offer of JDF connectivity with multiple pre-press, press and post-press vendors, at DPW the company will also show the new Optimus Connect facility, which is a method of obtaining on-going production data from equipment on the shop floor without using JDF or JMF technology.

As long as the hardware e.g., press, folder, guillotine etc emits an electronic signal then Connect can use those signals to transmit data to the Optimus 2020 MIS system.

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