Reasons to upgrade UMP to P3fax
The table below show new features in P3fax and describes their benefit.
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P3fax Feature
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Benefit
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Supports Vista & Windows 7
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Allows you to use the latest Microsoft operating systems.
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Runs on 64-bit computers
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Gives you the ability to use the most up to date hardware on your computer network.
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Web interface
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Allows you to log onto P3fax using any computers web browser* sending, viewing, your messages without the installation of additional software.
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Allows you to send and receive messages through your favourite mail client (such as Outlook, Thunderbird, Apple mail)
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Users can use existing routing rules/folder structure/archiving/backup procedures within their mail client. Sending messages (including faxes with coversheets) using the mail client’s editor, using software that is already familiar to them.
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Access P3fax from home via web server/mail client
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Use your offices fax network from home, send, receive and view your messages within P3fax out of the office.
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Network device management
Devices can be configured/logged on and off from computers other than the computer it is running from.
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Device restarts and options changes can take place from any computer.
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Web interface uses style sheets
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Change the look of P3fax to incorporate your own colours and logos.
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Updated icon driven interfaces
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Cleaner viewer controls, friendlier looking web interface
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Smoother device options set up
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Change the setup of your device through an easy web page layout
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License structure supports channels rather than devices
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Unlimited device support across one channel/fax line.
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Unlimited e-mail devices
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Add as many new P3fax email devices to your network as you desire.
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Provides web based email without the need of third party server such as hotmail or Gmail using your current ISP/web servers
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Get your email wherever you are via a web browser,
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Use Embedded commands within Emails as well as print capture.
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Allows you to use Wordcraft’s unique and popular Embedded commands functions from any computer via any email client.
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Supports CAPI 2.0 using multiple channel licences as standard
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Simplified purchasing of CAPI 2.0
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Uses Wordcraft latest drivers including 32-bit class 2 and multi-threaded email driver
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Supports more up to date devices and speeds
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LDAP Phonebook
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Contacts created in P3fax can be accessed by any LDAP compatible application such as Outlook, allowing for a central store for contacts for all your messaging applications.
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Supports SMTP Authentication for emails
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Send email via a secure SMTP server.
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Improved support for HTML emails
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View your HTML messages as the sender intended with images loaded within the body of the message.
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Improved file format support
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View your fax as a PDF or TIFF at the touch of a button.
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Archive to PDF and other formats as standard
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No need to purchase additional arching software.
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All new drag and drop viewer
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Re-order pages of your faxes/documents easily
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Print several times only creating one document/fax
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Merging many prints easily into one fax saves money sending them separately to the recipient.
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One click scanning
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Speed up scanning times
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View integrates with other image editor software
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Allows you to edit your faxes within your favourite image editor.
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Configure network folders for specific groups of users to see.
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Allows you to create folders that can be shared between groups of contacts such as departments.
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Licenses can be upgraded (add more users/channels) without the need to restart P3fax.
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Add new users/channels to your licence without interrupting people sending/receiving on the system.
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Hold check box in new message dialog
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No need to enter properties dialog to put message on hold.
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User requested feature: delete message while viewing
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No need to close your viewer to delete the message
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User requested feature: find in list
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Allows you to find messages quickly which are displayed in your current view.
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User requested feature: select your email account from the new message dialog.
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Change from your default email account while typing your message for ease of sending a message from a different account.
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Time intervals between retries and retry counts available in system menus.
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Easy to edit time intervals and retries through web interface.
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Local user settings are stored on the server and not in the windows registry.
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No longer need to input user dependant name and address fields when you change computer.
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Enhanced Routing – Routing rules can now be applied to every message, every shared message or every personal message.
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Every message can be archived (or have other actions applied to it) with one single rule.
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Processing of messages, routing rules and OCR are all done on P3fax server not clients.
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Keeps your lower specification client(s) running uninterupted.
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Use of the latest Abbyy OCR software in P3ocr
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Provides a vast improvement in the quality of OCR results.
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Improved automatic routing of OCR’d faxes
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P3ocr provides a vast improvement in the quality of results.
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OCR engine supports PDF, XLS, RTF, TXT, MHT output formats.
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Provides you with the option to open your results easily in a variety of other applications.
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Choose between speed and accuracy on OCR settings
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Option to increase speed of OCR engine if images are of high quality
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Optional OCR profiles
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Allows you to customise your OCR settings on a per document bases improving language support and output format selection.
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Email notification of job success/failure in P3fax and Gateway
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No need to check in Unimessage P3 for the progress of your job when the result can be emailed to you
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Automated monitoring of folder or email account for new jobs via P3gateway
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Allows you to email messages to be processed by P3gateway
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P3gateway can output jobs to a folder, send out via email or via P3fax
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Flexible easy way to access your processed documents
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Converts spool files or image formats to PDF or Tiff
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Easy conversion of documents to popular formats
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Improved handling of different languages
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Eg. European, Japanese, Chinese character sets improved.
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P3gateway supports a greater range of input formats (PRN, TIFF, JPG, PNG, BMP, PDF)
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No need to print files to a PCL print, P3fax gateway will email and fax converting the image file directly. (PCL printing is still supported)
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* For P3faxV1, browser must be Internet Explorer 6 or higher equivalent browser. For P3faxV2, browser must be Internet Explorer 7 or higher equivalent browser. (uses Javascript)
** I-netportal devices count as an always on device. 1 device logged on equals one channel always in use.




