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PrintWeasel
Batch file-printing software can organize and tag hundreds of documents
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| Print Weasel manages the print process so that time and labor of printing multiple documents in multiple format are kept to minimum. |
hile promises of a paperless society are still filling trash cans with discarded paper, contractors find they must print more and more of what had been previously sent to them in hard copy, which creates a new challenge: How do they cost effectively print all the material flowing into their offices?
“This is the problem we solved,” says JJ Safer, CEO and CIO of ProExecute LLC of Baton Rouge LA., maker of PrintWeasel Batch Printing Software. “The large construction owners have moved to the electronic systems, and the burden for printing has fallen down the chain. All of a sudden, the contractor has additional labor and cost just to print out documents needed to get his bid in—and he has to do it on a short deadline.”
Safer says his company’s intention was to create a simple software program to address this new burden so that some of the expense can go away. PrintWeasel manages the print process so that the time and labor of printing multiple documents in multiple formats are kept to a minimum.
Without PrintWeasel, contractors have only two choices if they need to print, for example, bidding documents. They can have a clerk open each file, select a printer, print and mark the document. If there are over 500 files, that will take a long time. Or they can send the files to a specialty printer that will charge thousands of dollars and take up to a week to print.
PrintWeasel acts as an intelligent clerk. It can take a CD filled with 50 file types and print them on the various printers in a contractor’s network. It also is self-auditing. It can stamp each page with a document and job number and client contact information, and also monitor the output, reporting if even one page gets skipped in the process.
PrintWeasel allows the user to control the output, deciding how to print a document with multiple paper sizes. Autocad files can be produced on tabloid paper and specification sheets can be printed on standard letter size. Safer says 40,000 pages can be printed in-house per day.
David Grimball, the engineering manager at Fabricated Pipe Inc., Baton Rouge, La., has been using PrintWeasel for about a month. He says that he sees a lot less mistakes using the software.
“We get a disk with 300 to 400 files on it. Before we started using PrintWeasel, when we printed, files would get skipped. This software scans the folder the files are in, tells you how many files, numbers them and tells you the ones that got missed. And the documents are better organized after they are printed.”
The software also can keep the files in a database so there is a record of who printed each file and when it was printed. Grimball says: “We used to have to have someone manually put our job and bid number on each page. PrintWeasel saves me time on the front end. If we don’t get what we bid, we don’t waste our effort.”
PrintWeasel is loaded onto a work station and can be downloaded from the company’s Website. Safer says it is simple to use and will print almost anything. “If they can print it, we can print it,” he says.
A 30-day, free-trial version is available on the ProExecute Website. Cost: $2,799. Volume discounts are available.
ProExecute
15961 Airline Highway
Baton Rouge, LA 70817
866-587-7639
proexecute.com
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