Why Multi-Part / Pre-Printed Forms Should Be Replaced?

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Multi-part forms are very expensive and takes time out of your day to print, prep, and store. This creates a down turn in productivity and workflow. Multi-part forms also needs to be in the same layout and can not be customized unless you buy new multi-part forms. With Reform 14's Designer and form link ability, this eliminates time wasted, money loss from printing multi-part forms, and a halt in production. Below are many other reasons why multi-part forms are no longer efficient and how Reform 14 can help improve your organization's workflow:

• No More Paper Jams.

• No More Running Out of Forms.

• No More Tearing Off Track Feeds.

• No More Delivering Forms To The Proper Locations.

• No More Manually-Fed Faxes.

• No More Purchasing Expensive Pre-Printed Forms.

Reform 14 can enhance and automate your paper flow automatically. Forms can be distributed to any device such as laser, inkjet, dot matrix, barcode, fax and e-mail systems, etc. It uses a powerful form-link feature that allows users to print multiple forms from a single text output. Simply specify which form to link to, and Reform 14 will keep processing each form using the same text output until it reaches the end of the link. As a result, the multi-part printing is achieved. There are no limitations to the number of form links, and form links can be added at any time.

Advantages Over Multi-Part / Pre-Printed Forms

Typical multi-part pre-printed forms need the same layout for all parts of the forms. With the form-link feature however, the linked forms are independent from one another in terms of design and layout. The benefit to this approach is that each form can contain individual settings such as output devices, fonts, and graphics, while maintaining the same data content. In addition, each part can be routed over the network to a different output device (electronic distribution). All of the multi-part / pre-printed forms generated by Reform 14 will look as perfect as the first since each form is an individual print job and not a carbon copy.

Order Person Multi-Part Scenario:

An order person takes an order from a customer, enters it into their order entry system, and then prints out the order as usual. At this point they are finished while Reform 14 takes over and completes the process. Reform captures the output and produces the printout using the first linked form called "Order.fom". The "Order.fom" is printed to a shared network printer in the order-desk room. Reform 14 then continues using the next linked form called "Pickingticket.fom" which prints to the warehouse's printer for warehouse personnel to gather the ordered products. The last linked form is an order acknowledgement form for the customer. Reform 14 generates the printout and sends it via e-mail to the customer who is located overseas. The most important point about the above scenario is that it all happens automatically without any human intervention.