There are significant organizational costs associated with the interruption of payment cycles and the loss of outbound financial documents, such as checks and remittance advices, due to network printer failures. Without a reliable print management solution, your company may also be exposed to unnecessary financial and operational risks. Even one failed print job can result in lost payments, missed discounts, stressed employee and supplier relationships, and strained IT resources.
Bottomline’s Print Manager solution, now available as a complementary addition to Bottomline’s WebSeries corporate payments platform, is designed to help your company maximize financial printing efficiencies in an increasingly document-intensive business environment.
Take Your Financial Printing Investment to the Next Level
With features for assured delivery, bi-directional printer communications and both end-user and application notification, Bottomline Print Manager takes the guesswork out of traditional printing infrastructures for checks and remittance advices. Organizations can now configure and control remote check printing resources, confirm delivery, proactively anticipate and correct problems, reduce network downtime, automate printer fail-over, and manage multiple types of financial document output – all from a single, secure interface.
Unlike traditional printers that require physical monitoring and manual intervention to redirect or restart an interrupted check run, networks supported by Bottomline Print Manager can ensure successful print jobs with rules-based automation that bypasses network bottlenecks and immediately redirects checks to an available secure printer or proactively notifies IT resources that a check job is stalled. Organizations can also reap significant cost savings and improve security controls by eliminating the need to manually track lost checks and resubmit them for printing.
Optimize Finance and IT Resources for Both Upstream and Downstream Printer Management
Bottomline Print Manager dynamically distributes the downstream check and remittance workload from your WebSeries server so that financial printer networks are never underused or overburdened. The system automatically identifies the most efficient printer for each job, routing high-volume output to the fastest devices and then confirming that a check run issued to a local network was successful. By applying Print Manager to networks optimized for check and remittance output, organizations can eliminate lost checks and other payment delays resulting purely from printer issues, while improving cash management controls and reducing the number of duplicate check printing errors.
Additionally, Print Manager will automatically spool large check runs to multiple devices, redirect jobs if the primary printer is unavailable and alert end-users to any changes. If a device fails, Print Manager automatically redirects or reprints the job without accessing your ERP or other financial host system, or requiring IT assistance. Print Manager can also be applied upstream of your WebSeries architecture to support load balancing and fail-over scenarios across multiple servers and ensure critical check and remittance data streams are successfully delivered to the payment application.