Machine Management Apps

Colour Management

Perfect colours – From profiles to spot colours

Colour gives a document greater impact and improves readability. However, to make a really good impression, the colours in a document must always be reproduced consistently. Corporate Identity guidelines also demand consistent and precise reproduction of colour schemes for company logos, for example, irrespective of the output system. The Colour Profiler Suite is an important tool for achieving absolutely precise colour consistency. This is done with the aid of ICC standard profiles, which can be used on all Develop colour systems equipped with a Fiery® controller. A spectral photometer and positioning aids are included in the scope of delivery with the software. Unlike a basic densitometer, a spectral photometer can recognise colour tones and thus measure special colours, for example.

How You Benefit

• Creation of ICC profiles:  With the generation of ICC profiles, this colour management tool matches the settings of scanners, digital cameras, monitors and printers. This ensures that an original document read in using any input device can be reproduced accurately on any output device.
• Profile Inspector:  With the Profile Inspector, profiles can be compared and represented in 3D. They can then be adapted using another tool, the Profile Editor.
• Calibration of Develop systems:   The ES-2000 spectral photometer is a fast, easy-to-use colour calibrator that is connected to the computer via a USB interface. Because the ES-2000 is addressed directly by the calibration module of the normal Fiery® software, it can also be used as a densitometer to record fluctuations in colour reproduction for calibration purposes.
• Creation of libraries with spot colours:  This can be done with a Fiery® controller and is partic¬ularly useful for work during the pre-press stage. The spectral photometer calibrates the colours for the Fiery® module “Spot-On”. With the new Color Verifier, colour values can be measured and compared based on their deviations.
• Monitor calibration for soft-proofing: The documents can be checked on the screen (soft-proofing) after the monitor has been calibrated. 
  

Device Manager

What makes the Device Manager so special?

Monitor your system requirements from one central location.

Device Manager, a web-based server software, is capable of monitoring nearly all output systems installed on your network. Instant email notification of low paper levels, jams and other system incidents are sent directly to the IT-Administrator or key operator and leads to reduced response time. In addition, Device Manager automatically transmits the status of toner shortage per email and allows remote access to counter data.

The IT administrator is assisted with a once define, repeat install function, avoiding repetitive installation tasks on several systems within the network. When changes occur in the network, the printers and copiers can be easily adapted.

Workgroups, departments and divisions can be re-grouped with access to pre-defined devices. Nevertheless, if the user requires access to a specific ineo device, Device Manager leads the user via a direct link to Web Connection, the user interface to the digital systems on the network.

Apart from a clear arrangement and time-saving “Device-Search” function it is also possible to remotely reboot the devices after changing network settings or to fix an error. This allows IT-Administrators to save immense time, especially in network environments with long distances between the systems and the operator or separate buildings.

If you are considering first-time entry into centralised print management on your company network, then Device Manager is without doubt the best entry-level choice.

 
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Data Administrator

Data Administrator eliminates the need to configure and update Authentication settings and one touch destinations including Email, SMB and FTP manually on each Ineo device -- and for busy system administrators, that can save valuable time and effort.  You can import Email addresses in bulk from an LDAP-compliant Email server as well as import and export user authentication data to and from supported Ineo devices.  You can also import current settings from existing Konica Minolta models, to speed the integration of new equipment into your workflow. All this data can be pushed to one or multiple devices without ever being in front of the MFP.

• Import addresses from existing address books, database addresses and address data contained in other types of software.
• Import individual addresses from an LDAP server, searching and selecting only the addresses you need.
• Import addresses in a wide range of formats: CSV, TAB, LDIF, and Notes Structured Text.
• Import User Authentication and Account Tracking data from an existing Ineo device and export the settings to new Ineo devices to your network.
• Establish User Access Profiles to limit Ineo functions for certain end-users -- for example, allowing a user to print documents in B&W but not in color.
  
  

 

Accounting Manager

Effective cost control through user access evaluation

Controlled user access and rights of use are of vital importance when considering the economics and operation of digital multifunctional systems.

User access and accounts can be created centrally with a few mouse clicks using Authentication Manager, the corresponding software module from Enterprise Suite.

Exactly which user or department prints, copies or faxes how often per month, whether in colour or black & white, and on which specific digital system? Are the systems working at full capacity? Good questions to which Account Manager – the central server software can give you the right answers.

Given the internal charge rates for prints and copies, Account Manager can readout the resulting costs – as a diagram or chart with a wide variety of display options. Once the administrator has entered the relevant information, charges are automatically booked with no further intervention and reports are sent per email. The integrated export function supports common file types and delivers the data practicably in order to facilitate work on these reports.

For the required reports it is either possible to take one of the numerous analysis templates (Top 10 user, top 10 devices…) or create an own, individual one.

The “Print Log Tool” can even include desktop printers and locally installed devices.

How you benefit

• Multidimensional, dynamic charts or graphic output of counter readings, listed according to:
  • Users /accounts
  • Period/ time usage: day, week, month
  • Devices
  • Controllable functions: print, copy, scan, fax, box
  • Colour, b/w
  • Paper formats
• Chart / tables exported in *.xls, *.xlsx, *.csv, *.txt or *.xml or automatic email transmission.
• Easy user management in the UI
• Setup of dynamic restriction levels e.g. a maximum of 100 colour pages per user per week.
• Warning message upon reaching 80%/ 90% of the maximum restriction level
• Determination of page cost and readout of the total costs in the analysis report
• Individual or pre-defined analysis templates for the reports
• Calendar function for fast and clear report creation
• Pricing scale with a maximum of five levels i.e. lowest price per page from a volume of 1.000 pages per month
• Extension of cost analysis to local desktop printers vial the Print Log Tool
• Save report template feature for recurring automatic analysis
• Web browser based operation of the software by the IT administrator

 

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Authentication Manager

Maximum cost control with designated user access and accounts

Controlled user authorization and access are of vital importance when considering the economics and operation of digital multifunctional systems.

In some cases, it can make sense to restrict the use of colour or limit certain functions to selected users or workgroups. Authentication Manager, the central server software, allows you to authorise specific and detailed user rights for selected ineos on the network in just one step. From then on, any user logging into a specific system requires either a PIN, ID via the finger vein scanner or a valid chip card. Input data is then compared with the predefined authentication data on the server.

With the “Card Self-Registration” it is possible to easily integrate new users in an existing card-infrastructure without any additional work for the IT-Administration. Three security levels control the card disposition and keep new registrations transparent for the Administration.

New users and group structures will be completely and automatically synchronised with Windows centralised directory service Active Directory in order to avoid the necessity of double permissions and to enhance a consistent user management.

So-called “public users” with no specific authorisation can be given standard system rights such as access to copy functions. In addition, or as an alternative to individual access, accounts can be configured giving access to entire departments and project groups.

Authentication Manager reduces your IT administrator’s workload by giving users and accounts one-step access to the digital systems.

How you benefit

• Controlled user access with authorisation via:
  • Password (max. 8 digit PIN)
  • Finger vein authentication (requires e.g. AU-101)
  • Chip card ID (requires e.g. AU-201)
• Download users in Active Directory via LDAP for central registration
• “Public users” without registered access rights can be restricted e.g. to b/w use only
• Combine individual users to form a user group
• Create accounts with controlled access to ineo features and functions according to departments, workgroups, customers, periods and projects
• Controllable functions:
  • Print (colour, b/w)
  • Copy (colour, b/w)
  • Scan
  • Fax
  • BOX (personal HD memory access)
• Input of manual scan and fax addresses can be blocked for reasons of security
• User access rights can be stored as a template for repeated use i.e. copy access rights
• Variable analysis options are available for both users and accounts in combination with the optional Account Manager, an additional Enterprise Suite module.
• Card Self-Registration to easily integrate new users in the card infrastructure
• View and free editing of card-ID’s in the Administrator UI
• Frequent synchronisation with Acitve Directory
• Combination of single users to user groups
• Fast and easy definition of limitations for single users or groups

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