Hapag-Lloyd,
one of the worlds largest shipping companies with
its headquarters in Hamburg, Germany started a project
to unify and modernize its worldwide printing of business
documents produced by its mainframe applications.
Papyrus Host was the choice to distribute the business
data from 3 MVS hosts to 100 worldwide installed Papyrus
Print Server on NT. The Papyrus Server merges the
business data with the electronic forms, fonts and
logos previously developed with the graphical OverView
AFP Designer centrally in Hamburg/Germany for all
languages.
A distributed printing solution
using Papyrus at HAPAG-LLOYD
Recently
Hapag Lloyd has added the Papyrus Server/Fax solution
in Germany, Singapore, and USA to allow faxing of existing
documents using fax machines from TopCall.
The Customer
The international shipping company Hapag-Lloyd, is
in the business of intercontinental containerized door-to-door
transportation and tourism. The total revenue for the
fiscal year 1998/99 amounted to 17.8 billion Deutsch
Marks.
The
Requirements
"In the core application for world wide liner
services, the print data produced centrally on MVS has
to be distributed electronically to our geographically
decentralized offices around the globe", says Mr.
Norbert Karden of Hapag-Lloyd when talking about the
requirements for a new enterprisewide document solution.
It was required to offer speed and high flexibility
for the design of the many different shipping documents
in many languages for the enterprise, and the printout
of these in laser-printer quality. The main demand
on the printing solution was the support of the various
existing printer hardware used at the Hapag-Lloyd
worldwide offices. These should not have to be changed
for the new printing system. The solution must provide
flexibility for the future to support a wide range
of standard printer hardware.
The
ISIS Proposal
ISIS proposed to use its OverView AFP Designer Suite
to develop the documents in a printer independent manner.
The Papyrus Host and Papyrus Server are used for remote
printing with automatic distribution and conversion
of forms, logos and fonts at time of print. All applications
conform to the IBM AFP standard.
The Solution
In Hamburg a central group manages the development
of all resources such as forms, logos, fonts, and data-layout
utilizing the graphical capabilities of the OverView
AFP Designer Suite.
Papyrus Host using the standard FSS interface to JES2,
provides Hapag-Lloyd with the management of the print
resources between the mainframe and the remote print
server and the distribution of the business data.
Papyrus Host offers central definition of new printers
located in any of the worldwide offices, and secures
that all print resources are available at the remote
server at time of printing or faxing.
Highlights
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Fast and flexible graphic design of print
applications combining forms and data in AFP standard |
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Guaranteed look of the printed documents on
all laser printers and fax machines |
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Using the same AFP resource library (fonts,
forms and logos) at time of development and at
time of print to any type of printer |
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lnvestment protection: Support of existing
and future impact and laser printer hardware |
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Platform and printer independence |
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Fully automated and controlled distribution
of resources and data to remote print servers
from MVS JES2 |
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Fully automated batch fax solution |
Summary
"Through the flexibility of the Papyrus solution,
we were able to change from line-oriented printing to
page printing using Papyrus Host and Server without
interfering with our legacy print production. This made
decentralized forms and graphics printing possible at
all local offices".
Says Mr. Karden of Hapag-Lloyd. |
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