Specific Benefits Include: Features and Benefits thinkprint provides a flexible single pointof control for all print and plot operations for product information and distributes and optimizes access to expensive devices while enforcing company guidelines.thinkprint is a client-server system, andall the device configuration activities occur at the server side. Each thinkteam client user simply selects documents or a BOM and requests to print on a given device, which may be an actual physical device or a virtual device. Virtual print queues enable a device classification by document type, format, media type, physical location and more. Server-basedconversion services can print documents generated by applications not installed by the clients, saving software, training and administration costs.

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Building on over 20 yearsofproduct data management (PDM) experience.

While electronic archives changed thedistribution and the costs of information management, paper-based documents industrial still play a critical role in everyday relationships within each company and among networks of partners, customers and suppliers.Many small and mid-size businesses relyheavily on the Engineering department, or a specialized documentation center department, to provide a printed version of relevant documents used in the product development process. Work in progress documents to elicit early feedback from suppliers, released documents of formal approvals from customers or formal offers from suppliers, as well as final documentation shipped with a custom product are all examples of activities requiring accurate, massive and/or controlled output management.thinkprint is the solution to easilyintegrate output device management and printing with the information managed in the thinkPLM controlled environment. Every authorized thinkPLM user can print a single document, the documents related to a specific BOM or a set of related or unrelated documents without any client-side configuration, even if the physical output device is not reachable from the client’s machine. Custom information management thinkprint automatically updates symbolicvalues and variables stored within the files with up-to-date information from thinkPLM, like document status, part number revision or author. It is also possible to define custom values, associated to a single file or related to all files sent to a specific print queue. Automated setup thinkprint can automatically defineprinting queues based on Windows
 printer and faxes devices. This feature allows rapid startup; any user can access devices available on the network or directly connected to thinkprint server. Virtual devices management Virtual devices allow maximum flexibilitywhen managing physical output resources. Each virtual device may group different physical devices. thinkprint automatically defines the actual output device for a file based on characteristics such as the file type and the file format. This allows, for example, companies to define rules such as “print all ISO A4 and ISO A3 AutoCAD documents on the laser printer HPLaserjet and all ISO A2 and larger documents on the Calcomp plotter”. Queues management
System Requirements With thinkprint’s queue manager, userscan automatically send an e-mail when a print job completes and define printing characteristics for a specific batch of files. The industrial monitoring system allows tracking of each queue and each file printing status. While the server shows the status of all queues, the client may show the status of print requests for the current user.
Requirements vary based oninstalled products, please refer to each product's datasheet for precise information. thinkprint Server RequirementsMinimum: thinkteam document manager think3 Inc., 312 Walnut St., Suite 2470, Cincinnati, OH 45202, www.think3.com © 2005 think3 Inc. All rights reserved. think3, thinkiD DesignXpressions, the think3 logo, thinkdesign and thinkteam are among the registered and unregistered trademarks of think3 Inc. All other trademarks,product names and company names or logos mentioned herein may be the property of their respective owners (Windows).