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Topics of Discussion Planet Press Overview Benefits of Using Planet Press Getting Organized Sample Data Understanding Printers Form Basics Planet Press Designer Planet Press Configuration

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Overview Planet Press is third-party software This software is owned by ObjectifLune DDMS is first call support and provides your primary customer-facing documents: Invoices Purchase orders Pick tickets Statements

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Configuration/Watch Process DDMS sends a default configuration file. It includes the following: Printing process (Supplies/Furniture) Day end process Month end process AF-Master process (Fax/Email)

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Benefits With Planet Press, you can: Save paper by archiving your daily procedures. Save paper and time by emailing reports rather than printing and distributing them. Customize messages on emails to customers based on that customer’s assigned salesperson. Be creative and impress customers with professional-looking documents.

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Getting Organized First decide: What formats are you currently using? What new formats do you need? What documents need to be archived? What documents need to be emailed? Then determine: The formats you need and want. The special processes you are looking for. Set it up!

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Sample Data Planet Press takes sample data which is raw text in a format and places an overlay on top before printing. This overlay can contain boxes, lines, shapes, etc. It also allows you to place your logo on your formats.

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Understanding Printers Each physical DDMS printer must Be installed on the Planet Press machine by IP address Each virtual Planet Press printer must be added to the DDMS server as a file printer This printer waits and watches for printing commands. If hosted the VPN tunnel is used. If not hosted your network is used.

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How Planet Press Works Before Planet Press TBL Config: P1 = HP LaserJet 6

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How Planet Press Works After Work Station DDMS Server TBL Config Virtual printer A PP virtual input printer B PP machine (paused) Physical printer

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Understanding Printers Install physical printer on Planet Press machine Create first virtual input file printer on Planet Press machine, share and set as generic/text only. **Virtual printers are added to the Planet Press machine and are setup for the WinQueue Input. They receive the print command from the DDMS machine, then search for the format and real printer in the work flow.

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Understanding printers – Planet Press machine

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Understanding Printers 3. Create second printer on DDMS server as a local port - pointing to the virtual printer you just sharedin Step 2 Example: \\planet-press machine name\share name This sends the job from DDMS over to the virtual printer. Acts as a pass through. 4. Add second printer from Step 2 to TBL Config

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Understanding printers – DDMS server

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Understanding Printers 5. In Planet Press configuration: Copy an existing printing process or workflow. Change the input printer at the top (WinQueue) to the printer from Step 2 (virtual input file printer). 6. Change the output printer to the physical printer to which to print. 7. Save and send to work flow.

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Work flow – WinQueue – The Tree – Planet Press machine Paused

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Form Basics So much more information can be given when using Planet Press including: Contact information (phone and fax numbers, email addresses, Web URL, etc.) Terms How and when your customer can pay you (credit card images) Appreciation for their order Where they can provide feedback to you.

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Designer Tips With the Planet Press Designer, you can: Add text Add data Add box objects Apply fonts (Styles) Align boxes and other objects Add shading

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Planet Press Designer Document Structure Change styles Conditions Pages/Objects Pictures - Logo

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Adding Styles (Fonts)

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Planet Press Designer Workspace Move objects Add new objects Align objects

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Conditions Conditions can limit the custom formats that you need. For example, you can: Change logos/addresses based on location. Change messages based on Prepaid vs. Charge. Change messages based on Account Number / Status for Terms. Change messages based on past due status. Change messages to drivers based on routes.

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Tips Remember to setup the services to run as administrator Remember to save any changes to a work flow by sending configuration (orange icon)

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More Information Call DDMS Support first. You can find videos here: http://www.ddms.com/support/tutorial/tutorial.htm You can visit www.objectiflune.com for their FAQ/Knowledge Base. Documentation is here: http://www.ddms.com/Resources/Support/faq/utilities/PlanetPress

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