Monitor and track what is printed, by whom and at what cost using uniFLOW Output Manager, which provides:

• Job Accounting - Bill clients accurately for print and copy jobs performed
• Customised reports - Identify and modify inefficient printing trends through automated reports
• Secure Printing - Drastically reduce paper wastage and remove the need to maintain desktop printers for printing confidential documents
• Job Router - Automatically redirect large print jobs to more cost-effective devices, saving on consumables

uniFLOW Overview

From large corporate enterprises to small local offices, schools to universities: wherever you need to improve the management and cost control of document output, uniFLOW can help.

The core of uniFLOW is the Output Manager. This provides full auditing of devices on the print server assigning costs to a user, project code or department. Users can also select a project or cost code at the moment they send the job to the printer. By using the built-in intelligence of Canon iR multifunctional devices, uniFLOW Output Manager can also track all print, copy and fax jobs directly from the device.

All of this knowledge can be viewed and accessed with the built-in statistics engine. The reports can show everything you need to know about who is printing and how much it is costing you. Reports can also be configured to be sent as an email automatically.

This core functionality can be extended with the addition of one or more of the following modules:

Desktop Accounting - extends uniFLOW to all locally connected devices accessed over the network without using a print server.

Remote Printer Server - allows you to keep the print traffic on the local server while sending the accounting information back to the central database

Load Balancing - can redirect large jobs to a departmental printer or divert output to alternative devices in the event of a problem.

Server Clustering - allows uniFLOW to run on a clustered Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 server environment.

"Failover Solution" - UniFLOW Output Manager checks if the printer is available. If the device is down it re-routes the job to the next device in the group and sends the user a notification pop-up.

Secure Printing -   Users print to a secure print queue and then release their job from any machine, after authenticating with a PIN number, swipe card or even fingerprint reader. Secure Printing drastically reduces paper wastage and removes need to maintain desktop printers for printing confidential documents

Identification Methods - many different ID methods can be integrated with uniFLOW including:

Fingerprint readers

Chip card readers

Magnetic card readers

Contactless card readers

Keyboard entry

MEAP Functionality - The secure print functionality of uniFLOW can be further enhanced by using Canon's Java based MEAP technology.