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 SIMON Reports
- Organisations wishing to move from line or dot matrix printers to page printers, for speed, convenience, access to forms overlays, cost savings on pre-printed stationery, flexibility, and better presentation. Often the cost of the conversion is high, requiring many hours of expensive consultants' time, and/or development time.
- The complexity of high-end ERP systems' report designers can be overwhelming, and the cost of bringing in outside assistance prohibitive. With Simon Reports, all you need is to create a text file in just about any layout and you can turn it into a professional laser-printed form.
Simplicity of setup and configuration were key design principles of Simon Reports.
There are several ways of getting text files for Simon Reports to work with, but it can nearly always be done. A variety of mechanisms are built in to cater for all kinds of host system.
Output can be formatted using any printer-supported font, landscape or portrait, with or without forms overlays.
Features include:
- Move any field (line or part of line) to any position on the output page.
- Each field can be individually formatted - own typeface, style, size.
- Visual designer for setting up import and defining layout.
- As many different layouts/conversion specifications as you need.
- Apply conditional formatting - for example, print overdue balances in bold.
- Barcodes (most of the common types) can be printed.
- Automatic emailing
- Output to PDF files, which can be emailed automatically.
Features planned for version 2 are:
- Import from Excel spreadsheets.
- Built-in ftp client to fetch files from Unix systems.
- Output to fax, html.
- Database-linked conditional routing to different output formats.
- Load balancing to distribute printing over multiple printers.
Pricing
Simon Reports is licensed on a usage basis. The program is freely available for trial. An unlicensed version has all functionality but will print a maximum of 20 pages at a time.
For production use, licence keys may be purchased in blocks ranging from 10000 to 1 million.
Pricing (excluding VAT) is:
| 10 000 pages |
R 800.00 |
(8c per page) |
| 20 000 pages |
R 1 500.00 |
(7.5c per page) |
| 50 000 pages |
R 3 500.00 |
(7c per page) |
| 100 000 pages |
R 6 500.00 |
(6.5c per page) |
| 200 000 pages |
R 12 000.00 |
(6c per page) |
| 500 000 pages |
R 25 000.00 |
(5c per page) |
| 1 m pages |
R 40 000.00 |
(4c per page) |
Email pages are charged as two pages.
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