Forms Overlay

Why and What to Automate
Purchase ordering, sales ordering and invoicing systems all output some kind of confirmation document, which traditionally is posted to the intended recipient. Printing such documents, to be manually posted or faxed, is very costly in both stationery and postage, not to mention the staff cost to carry out the process. As accounting procedures are now computer based, they are ideal applications for fax automation. Through RELAY's API modules, it is a simple task for any system to provide the data which will result in a computer generated fax message.

To retain the quality of pre-printed forms traditionally used in these applications, an image of the printed form is held in a library. Applications therefore need only to pass through the data that is to be added to the form. The RELAY forms merge module overlays this data on to the image of the form and transmits the result as a fax.

Form Creation
RELAY can use forms which have been generated by any forms package that can produce output in PostScript format.

Alternatively, if you do not have this facility, our forms creation service can take your printed form and create an image that can be used by RELAY.

Multiple forms can be stored for use by RELAY, and it is possible to use a combination of different forms in a single message.

Technical Requirements:
RELAY Forms Overlay Module

RELAY PostScript converter module

Adobe Type Basic Font Set