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Transform PostScript Output for Production, Archive, and Digital Workflows

Improve processing performance and prepare PostScript output for modern production environments

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Product Overview

PostScript print streams provide flexibility across production environments but can become difficult to manage as workflows scale and evolve

PostScript output remains a common format for high-volume document production. However, supporting archive, digital delivery, and evolving print requirements often requires organizations to modernize PostScript workflows without disrupting existing applications.

PRO PS transforms and optimizes PostScript print streams while preserving document fidelity. It enables format conversion and workflow integration without changes to the original application, reducing operational complexity.

Normalization reduces duplicate resources and file size, improves processing efficiency, and prepares output for modern print, archive and digital delivery workflows.

Benefits

Consistent output across mixed print environments

Faster processing performance

Reduced file size and resource overhead

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What does PRO PS do?

PRO PS transforms, optimizes, and normalizes PostScript print streams for high-volume production, archive, and digital delivery workflows without changes to the original application. PRO PS prepares PostScript output for efficient processing and integration with downstream workflows.

PostScript resources, including fonts, forms, logos, images, and color commands, are processed accurately to maintain consistent output across customer communications and business documents. PRO PS also optimizes PostScript files to reduce duplicate fonts and graphical elements, reduce file size, and improve throughput.

With PRO PS, organizations can

Convert PostScript output

Transform PostScript print streams into AFP, PDF, PCL, Metacode, HTML, and other industry-standard formats

Preserve output fidelity

Maintain fonts, forms, graphics, and resources for consistent document output across production environments

Optimize print streams

Normalize PostScript files to reduce duplicate resources, lower file size, and improve processing performance

Support object-level transformation

Process PostScript objects efficiently rather than relying on image-only output

Apply output controls

Use controls such as resource embedding, PDF Encryption, bookmarking, blank-page suppression, and file merging or splitting

Support workflow integration

Extract index data, create audit logs, and merge or split PostScript files to support archive, retrieval, and downstream workflows

Choose the right output for the job.

PostScript to PDF / PDF/A

Convert PS output into PDF for digital delivery, customer access, and long-term archive.

PostScript to AFP

Transform PS print streams into AFP to support production environments that require consistent, high-volume output.

PostScript to PCL

Convert PS output to PCL to support distributed printing environments and printer compatibility.

PostScript to HTML (Responsive)

Dynamically render PS output as responsive HTML for web-based access and digital presentment.

PostScript to Image (TIFF / PNG)

Create image output from PS print streams for archive, reprint, and enterprise content management workflows.

PostScript Normalization

Optimize PS files by reducing duplicate fonts and graphical elements, improving processing performance and storage efficiency.
Use Cases
Integrations
  • Convert PostScript output into PDF for digital delivery and customer communications
  • Migrate PostScript applications to modern print, archive and digital delivery platforms without application rewrites
  • Create production reprints from archived PostScript documents without production support
  • Include PostScript documents in archived transactional document streams
  • Reduce file size and improve downstream processing by normalizing poorly structured PostScript files
  • Merge and split PostScript print streams to support diverse printers and locations
  • Convert PostScript output into responsive HTML for digital presentment and customer portal access
  • Support high-speed document processing while preserving existing forms, fonts, and applications

Flexible Integration & Deployment Options

Cloud deployment

Deploy PRO PS in the environment that fits your business, including SaaS through PRO DocNow, private cloud, major cloud platforms, containerized deployments and on-premises environments.

Integrations

PRO PS integrates into existing production environments through flexible APIs and integration options, including C/C++, Java, RESTful services, and gRPC, while supporting batch, on-demand, and hot-folder processing for PostScript workflows.

Operating system support

PRO PS supports major enterprise operating systems:

  • z/OS, Linux for System z
  • AIX, Solaris
  • Windows, Linux

Success Stories

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Dominion of Canada Improves Customer Service

Dominion of Canada Improves Customer Service

This large Canadian insurance company needed a solution that enable their network of brokers to easily access electronic versions of their clients’ policy declaration documents. Their goals were to increase broker satisfaction and “go green”, while saving on paper, print and mailing costs. Since it was essential that the integrity of the information in the originating print stream be maintained, they turned to CrawfordTech’s PRO AFP to automatically convert legacy AFP print files to PDF/A documents, which are then stored in their IBM Filenet repository, which is integrated with the brokers’ portals.

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GIP Reduces Costs and Expands Services

GIP Reduces Costs and Expands Services

Gesellschaft für Innovative Personalwirtschaftssysteme mbH (GIP) is a managed service provider based in Germany that provides software and services to the public sector across Germany, providing solutions that aid the production of Human Resources (HR) documents for 2.5 million public servants. With CrawfordTech’s PRO AFP, they were automatically create files for electronic distribution and viewing, while archiving them in the ISO Standard PDF/A. The implementation allowed them to be more efficient and reduce costs, with the potential to save up to 2 billion pages per year.

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Online Delivery of Credit Card Statements

Online Delivery of Credit Card Statements

The bank is one of the largest credit card issuers in North America, printing and mailing over 50 million statements each month. They needed a more efficient process to provide instant and secure online access for their millions of credit card holders to view statements and pay their bills. After a rigorous testing regime that included load tests with several applications at speeds up to 200 transactions per second, the bank selected PRO AFP to PDF from Crawford Technologies to replace its legacy conversion solution, achieving a payback of 125% in the first year of operation.

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