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BÖWE One ReCompose

BÖWE One ReCompose helps mailers improve the appearance, relevance and traceability of documents to make every communication more effective and every mailing process more trackable.

ReCompose is a print stream manipulation software that can modify the appearance of print-ready output without having to re-engineer a legacy billing or statement application. Document modifications are simple, cost effective and ensure closed loop integrity. With ReCompose, you gain control over the appearance, economy and deliverability of your communications.

Document changes can include:

  • Design enhancements
  • Dynamic use of fonts, shading and color
  • Application of full-color logos and images to increase brand recognition
  • Re-positioning of data to support new forms and document designs

Add charts

  • Convert document data into easy-to-understand charts, line graphs, pie charts, etc

Optimize document order and account delivery information

  • Interfacing with postal software for presort discounts
  • Segregating documents into multiple output files for load balancing across multiple printers

Support for item-level tracking solutions

  • Application of bar codes and sequence numbers for unique document identification
  • Generation of control files in all industry-standard formats (IDF, HAL, MRDF) for accurate document tracking and reconciliation

Data format transformation

  • Convert between print and electronic formats and from one vendor’s print format to another, without changing the document appearance
  • Combine data from documents that originate in different files and/or file formats

ReCompose modularity

ReCompose capabilities are offered as a standard package with optional modules. The standard package allows users to perform document manipulation on a single input/output print file format, and can be run on a single production system. The standard package gives you the ability to manipulate print files in the following ways:

  • Application of black and white or color fonts, shading, lines and boxes
  • Incorporation of full-color logos and images
  • Combination of data from multiple input files of the same print format (e.g. two or more AFP files)
  • Conditional sorting and segregation of documents in output files
  • Interface to postal discount software – like BÖWE One Postal Data Preparation

Who will benefit most from BÖWE One ReCompose?

ReCompose can be an essential resource for a variety of companies, especially those needing to:

  • Prepare customer-supplied print-ready applications for finishing with tracking solutions such as BÖWE One Item or Production Management by incorporating Barcodes, Sequence IDs and/or Control files
  • Merge data from multiple sources to create a single, combined document with a cohesive look and feel
  • Enhance existing applications with new logos and other elements of brand identity
  • Selectively highlight information or apply urgent messages to improve recipient response times
  • Modify document order to improve equipment throughput and reduce the cost to send mail
  • Interface with USPS-certified postal software to ensure deliverability of every mailpiece

Platforms and file formats supported

The system’s intuitive user interface allows development and testing of applications in a Windows environment and execution on a variety of platforms, including Windows, UNIX or mainframe. ReCompose can process the most widely used print and data file formats on all platforms.

  • Input: AFPDS, Xerox Metacode, LCDS, PCL and PDF
  • Output: AFPDS, Xerox Metacode, PCL, PostScript, IJPDS, TIFF, PDF and HTML

Optional ReCompose modules sold separately include:

  • Additional file format support enables processing of data in multiple formats to meet the needs of mixed print environments and electronic archive and presentment
  • Site license to allow a company to install ReCompose on multiple systems
  • Enterprise license provides for using ReCompose at multiple locations

Limited-use licenses are also available:

  • BÖWE One ReCompose Lite - Solution to applying barcode (1-D and 2-D) and unique sequence numbers on documents. Also produces a corresponding control file to be used by an item-level tracking solution, such as BÖWE One Item Management
  • BÖWE One Control File Generator - Solution that generates a control file in all industry-standard formats (IDF, HAL, MRDF) to be used by an item-level tracking solution, such as BÖWE One Item Management