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Increase Productivity with Document Management

Submitted by Web Master on Fri, 2011-09-16 10:10

Discovering the best way to manage documents within your business is vital to optimizing your business processes and creating a more efficient and productive environment for your employees. There are many ways that businesses manage their documents, whether it is through a traditional paper based document management system, a digital document management system, or a hybrid of the two.

Digital document management systems offer many benefits to businesses looking to add efficiency and increase security of their documents. The benefits of digital document management include:

Why Your Office Needs Managed Print Services

Submitted by Web Master on Fri, 2011-08-19 14:46

Managed Print Service programs allow offices to cut costs and increase efficiency through their print budget. There are many reasons for your business to invest in Managed Print Services. With Continental Business Systems, you will receive a customized program that fits your exact needs.

Here are some of the benefits of Managed Print Services:

Getting the Most out of Print Management

Submitted by Web Master on Thu, 2011-07-21 14:06

So you have decided to implement a print management system into your business. There is much to discover about your printing environment, and this data will paint the path of how to best tackle your printing environment to make it more efficient. There are some steps you can take to make the most out of your print management evaluation process.

Here are a few ways that you can get the most out of print management:

Making the Most out of Managed Print Services

Submitted by Web Master on Tue, 2011-06-21 15:22

There are a number of ways that your business can utilize Managed Print Services, and by following a few simple guidelines, you can maximize your returns and get the most accurate portrayal of your print environment. Managed Print Services will allow your business to get more out of your printing by printing smarter.

Here are some of our favorite tips to maximize the benefits of managed print services:

Buying a Printer or Scanner

Submitted by Webmaster on Thu, 2009-12-03 21:18

Printers and scanners are an absolute necessity in every organization, business, office, educational institution, and more. The numerous brands and features of printers and scanners can vary anywhere from the numerous accessories, to the simplicity of black and white, color or both depending on the intended job.

Printers are available for specific purposes such as printers for mobile receipts, mobile thermal labels, network thermal labels and more. While some scanners can also be used for specific scanning purposes of photos, business cards, documents, and checks. Although some machines can accomplish both jobs of the printer and scanner.

Printers

The print preview option works out to be a great advantage as it helps a person to see how everything would look like in final, hard copy. Another advantage of printers is allowing storage of all the information in files for future reference with an ease and peace of mind that nothing important will be lost.

Laser printers, print quickly while, inkjet printers are cheaper they are slower. Yet, both printers use ink cartridges and will need to be changed. A good sensible solution to dealing with constantly changing cartridges is to use reusable cartridges.

Scanners

Scanners are machines you can scan just about anything and view it in soft copy on your laptop or computer. Meaning important documents like proof of purchase receipts, photos, contracts, and articles from newspapers or magazines, can be scanned and shared over email with friends or colleagues.

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Distributed Capture Makes Scanning Easy

Submitted by Webmaster on Thu, 2009-11-12 19:20

Distributed capture has evolved with today’s business processes to incorporate paper-based information into digital workflows. Document imaging technology gives businesses the advantage to increase the amount and quality of information included in critical business systems. The integration of multifunction peripherals (MFP) have made document scanning available for the average office worker.

Whether a business wants to utilize a new distributed capture system or making improvements to its existing system, there are four key ways to ensure scanning processes are optimized to meet business needs.

Work with Your Existing Office Infrastructure.
With today’s emphasis on reducing environmental impact and cutting economic costs, it has never been more important to utilize existing IT investments in new ways. Businesses can significantly increase the value of existing systems by eliminating the need for paper-based workflows and file cabinet document storage.

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Document Scanning and Automation

Submitted by Webmaster on Thu, 2008-08-14 10:25

From ScanGuru

The Capture Applications on the market today are file folders outstanding when it comes to automation. For any organization that has a large scanning project, or requires minimal time and maximum efficiency from its scan operators, some level of automation is a necessity. So what does automation mean when we are discussing capture applications

Below are some key feature that will minimize the time and effort required to scan and process documents:

Document Separators – with most scanners, if you have 10 documents to scan, you will need to run each set of pages through the document feeder, and save them off individually to your repository. Applications that allow document separators provide a means to place separator sheets between each of your document sets, place the entire pile into the document feeder, and let the software split the stack into individual files. This is a huge time saver, even with a small number of documents.

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Management may not understand IT Security

Submitted by Webmaster on Thu, 2008-03-27 08:42

“Most C-level executives still view security as an operational issue, not a strategic issue, according to ‘Navigating Risk: The Business Case for Security.’”

I found an interesting article on this. IT security is far more important an issue than just an operational issue.

Take a look at this article from Dark Reading on IT Security and Management.