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• Combines graphics and data for non windows applications
• Creates professional Invoices etc without the cost of pre-printed stationery
• Makes more effective use of expensive printing resources

Printing is part of the X-Tranz suite from BAC.

It is a PC based facility, which runs in background, enabling prints created by application programs running on Unix, Linux or DOS, to be combined with a background image and sent to a networked laser (or other) printer.

The background images are held as bit map (.bmp) files, which could be logos, pictures, diagrams or form layouts for Invoices etc.

Printing operates by scanning a designated directory for print transaction files. These are text files created by UNIX, Linux or DOS programs, which contain the data to be printed, the location of background bit maps and the name of the destination printer.
Printing takes this information, compiles the print images and sends them to the appropriate printer.

Following processing the details of the print are logged (if logging is specified) and the print text file is deleted. Printing can be set-up to run automatically at a fixed time interval, which is tailorable via the 'configure' screen.

There are many types of document that may be produced in this way including Sales Invoices, Price Lists with product photos, etc. Of course, your server applications need to have functions that will create the print transaction files.

Typical example of Printing in use. You want to dispense with pre-printed Sales Invoice paperwork and utilise a networked laser printer (perhaps a colour printer) to print both customer and 'file' copies.

A document image is created using Word or some other PC package and saved as a bitmap image (this only has to be done when you first set up or change the Invoice layout).

Sales Invoice data is produced by your Unix server based Invoice Processing system. Printing finds the new print transactions and images and sends these to the destination printer.

You could also avoid printing the 'file' copy of the Invoice by utilising BAC's Document Archiving system that 'packs' the invoice data onto disc and provides archive enquiry/print facilities.