NDemand PM

Enterprise Production Manager

NDemand PM Enterprise Production Manager is one of the most comprehensive solutions in the industry, supporting automated production management and Web-based job submission—an ideal solution for high-volume printing environments.

NDemand PM—the Path to Improved Productivity and Profitability

NDemand PM allows printing facilities to replace traditional production storage and distribution processes with “just-in-time” capabilities to produce the exact quantities of documents when they are needed and at the most economical cost. This significantly reduces the cost of physical document inventories, printed material obsolescence, manual intervention and cycle time from order to delivery.

NDemand PM Workflow

With NDemand PM, you can make it easy for users to submit, manage and track their printing projects via the Web, including job specification, proofing and pricing approval. From the desktop to the print shop, NDemand is the ideal solution for the management of print and electronic document distribution in document-intensive enterprises.

NDemand PM for Document Management



Queue Management

NDemand PM allows users to submit electronic or hardcopy documents to the production system; query the document library for retrieval, reprinting or distribution of stored materials; and to modify documents.

NDemand PM supports:

  • Scanned input of hard copy
  • Simplex or duplex printing mode
  • Add, replace and delete stored documents based on permissions
  • Full error recovery throughout the print cycle
  • Importing of electronic documents from a wide variety of sources
  • Integrated document storage & retrieval
  • NDemand PM for Print Shop Management
  • NDemand PM’s Print Shop Management capabilities include job scheduling, job submission, print ordering, estimating and job costing, job tracking, workload balancing, reporting and printing on demand.


Job Management

NDemand PM offers:

  • Support for both printed and electronic media
  • Multi-queue print management
  • Print Order Specifications
  • Clustering of printers for load balancing and job splitting
  • Printer status tracking
  • Document proofing
  • Dynamic pricing
  • Chargeback management and accounting
  • System and customer reports
  • System Administration
  • A high level of security
  • Digital Document Repository

NDemand PM’s scaleable electronic library—or digital document repository—gives enterprise users and the print shop full control over all facets of document access, revision and production.

Within the document repository, documents may be indexed by document type, author, title, part number or other user-defined metadata for a fast and easy means of storing and retrieving documents for future printing and distribution requirements.

Book Assembly



NDemandPM now includes a Book Builder.

NDemand PM Enterprise Production Manager includes a BookBuilder for organizing multiple documents and document formats into books for proofing and printing.

Book Builder is ideally suited for managing document sets, technical manuals and complex forms. Books can be created and stored in the digital document repository for future modification and use. Custom indexing increases the usability of these document collections.

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Ideal for Multivendor and MultiSite Environments

NDemand PM is ideal for multivendor environments comprised of a range of technologies. With NDemand PM, you can manage leading networked production printers, including Xerox, Kodak and IBM. NDemand PM also manages computer-to-plate systems as well as binding and finishing equipment.

With NDemand PM, you can automatically sort, prioritize and redistribute job requests among print queues across multiple sites in a hub-and-spoke model, ensuring optimal management and control of equipment and jobs. And NDemand PM manages more than print. From a single JDF-compliant NDemand PM interface, you can manage:

  • production planning,
  • document storage,
  • job scheduling,
  • job ticketing,
  • job tracking,
  • job costing and estimating,
  • performance monitoring.
  • easy reprinting of stored jobs

NDemand PM includes a Storage Manager that can accommodate an electronic library of any size. Its flexible indexing allows instant access to managed documents regardless of the size of the library.