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Edit, Enhance and Manage Documents Simultaneously with Gestetner DesktopEditor for Production 2.0

Gestetner, a leading provider of Total Document Solutions, has launched DeskTopEditor for Production 2.0, the latest addition to Gestetner’s software portfolio designed for seamless integration with high-volume multifunctional machines. Gestetner’s latest software solution is the ideal application for users seeking the technology to digitize paper-based documents. This is the perfect tool for demanding Central Reprographic Departments (CRD) and for customers in organizations with large print volumes such as copy shops. DeskTopEditor for Production 2.0’s editing features allows you to enhance less-than-optimal originals and to edit multiple pages simultaneously at the touch of a button, giving you greater control over document production. Gestetner DeskTopEditor for Production 2.0 covers an important part of document workflow, from scanning to editing, including managing and preparing documents for printing.

Often in high-volume print environments users will be required to manage documents with multiple pages from different source applications; such as - reports, spreadsheets and Microsoft Office applications, which are both time consuming and can produce unprofessional looking documents. DeskTopEditor for Production 2.0 allows you to combine scanned documents regardless of their origin and edit as required, increasing production efficiency and reducing  time spent manually collating documents. Users will also benefit from a range of features such as Auto Document Link and sophisticated scanning and editing tools. 

IT and purchasing managers will appreciate its compatibility with existing platforms whilst offering stability that provides optimum efficiency levels and value.  Users will welcome DeskTopEditor for Production 2.0’s editing capabilities that effortlessly align text, reduce marks, remove punched holes and grey margins, insert page numbers and even edit text. Additional features allow users to delete and move areas, erase borders, rotate images, overlap templates, reduce noise and facilitate Optical Character Recognition (OCR) conversion, delivering a solution to satisfy any possible print and copy requirement. It is also possible to send scanned documents to Enterprise Document Management Systems (EDMS) or Gestetner’s Document Management Suite ScanRouter Document Server. Along with improving quality and saving time, documents are scanned at 600dpi, and can easily be saved to the document server’s edit tool or the document server cabinet with the appropriate print settings defined, making it easy for the user to retrieve and print at a moments notice. 

When editing and compiling documents, DeskTopEditor for Production 2.0 provides added flexibility to incorporate Company logos and page numbers across all pages at the touch of a button, creating professional looking documents easily. To make this even easier, users can view the whole document layout on one screen, so you can immediately select the best position for logo’s, dates, or page numbers.

“No other solution offers such outstanding value and innovative editing features as DeskTopEditor for Production 2.0.  This software allows novice or advanced users to manipulate scanned documents as if they where original document files. The many powerful editing features and the intuitive user interface make it an easy to use yet powerful addition to the production printing offering at Gestetner,” comments Paul Tasker, Senior Product Manager, Gestetner. “Busy print room and CRD environments don’t have the luxury of time to spend fixing less than perfect documents and collating them, especially when documents come in different formats. DeskTopEditor for Production 2.0 saves users significant amounts of time as it can edit multiple pages concurrently from different sources.”

Further enhancing ease of use, DeskTopEditor for Production 2.0’s browsing features include view by thumbnail, icon, details and calendar.  This software solution also provides outstanding document management capacity by allowing users to move, copy, delete, combine and separate documents.  With Auto Document Link, ease of use is heightened as users are automatically notified of new images which are transferred to DeskTopEditor for Production 2.0 folders or defined Windows® folders. 

With the file format converter, users can optimize the use of the high-volume multifunctional machines, facilitating the copying of documents from the document server directly to the software with print settings intact. DeskTopEditor for Production 2.0 also provides the tools to quickly and easily retrieve files to a PC, edit and then store them back on the Document Server for instant print on demand.  


DeskTopEditor for Production 2.0

Gestetner offers a variety of software solutions to augment its hardware product range to help customers improve work processes, enhance efficiency and ultimately improve profitability. Its software solutions encompass five key areas including network print management and control; document and information management; document distribution, forms management; and workflow solutions.

About Gestetner
Gestetner is a leading provider of Total Document Solutions. A key member of NRG Group, Gestetner provides cutting-edge IT based hardware and software solutions for the document life cycle, combined with a range of Business and Professional Services, which includes world-class customer support and consultancy. 

With headquarters in London, UK, NRG operates in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Indian Sub-continent, Russia and The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).  It employs over 7,300 dedicated employees, servicing customers through 15 wholly owned operations and many more through its international distributor partner network.  At the end of fiscal year 2006, the group had an annual turnover of some 1.5 billion Euros.

More information can be accessed on the NRG website: www.nrg-group.com

For further information, please contact:
Peter T. Van der Kaag
Ricoh Europe PLC
Tel: +44 20 7465 1153
E-mail: Peter.T.Van-der-Kaag@Ricoh-Europe.com