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Reprographics management white paper

A Cyon Research product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team May 1, 2006

White paper issued on the management of reprographics in architectural and engineering firms.

Cyon Research has released a free white paper on the management of reprographics in architectural and engineering firms.

According to the study, titled "Managing AEC Print Workflow: A Look at Oce Repro Desk Professional", the architectural industry still relies on paper documents for delivery to construction or production sites.

Despite the large amount of IT resources committed to file management in the design process, the careful tracking of the designs ends when the plots go out the door.

The white paper discusses the various logistical and interoperability issues involved with design document printing and delivery.

For instance, CAD documents must be converted to PLT files for plotting, a translation that may cause graphic errors and must be double-checked.

Generating many in-house print jobs at once may get confusing, as clients may require different deliverables in various formats.

Cyon also evaluates a new IT way to handle the complexities of AEC reprographics, Oce Repro Desk Professional, in the context of current industry conditions.

Oce North America, which has for decades catered its document management products to large-scale reprographics shops, attempts to tackle the AEC plotting problems by integrating plotting requirements and document inspection into the workflow of the design firms themselves.

"Reprographics have long been an afterthought to designers and engineers, but in reality the plotting and delivery of the final documents is a critical part of the business, with a vast amount of room for simple errors", said Cyon Research CEO Bradley Holtz.

"Just as PLM systems have managed digital documents within an organisation, we are seeing the emergence of new technology that expands tracking and control into the field".

"The Oce method represents one of the newest developments in that regard".

Sal Sheikh, VP of Marketing for the wide format printing systems division of Oce North America, said: "It's clear that Cyon Research understands the challenges AEC users face today as they transition from a paper-based workflow to a more digitally oriented one".

"By putting reprographers at the centre of the construction-print workflow using Oce Client Tools and Repro Desk Professional, print-production management and distribution becomes much more streamlined and automated from the desktop to the print room to the job site".

"This makes it extremely easy and efficient for AEC professionals to get prints to the right people at the right time for the least total cost, while keeping the reprographic business integral to the whole process".

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