Automating the production of plans and drawings is our craft. For more than 30 years.

Background

From the industry, for the industry.

PlanCom was founded in 1993. In 1994, as one of the first service providers in the reprographics industry in Germany, we put a digital production line into operation, combining an industrial plotter with a folding system that was among the first in Europe to be digitally controlled. It produced 12 A0 plans per minute, fully automatically and ready folded.

We wrote the software for order intake, production and invoicing ourselves, built for this highly complex and individual industry.

Ever since, we have been developing software for reprographic businesses, and we know from our own experience what matters in production.

For decades, our software, specialised in digital reprographics, has been the basis for efficient, automated production at our customers' businesses.

Profitability

Low margins need automated workflows.

CAD plots, construction drawings and engineering drawings are low-margin, high-volume products. Every manual step between order intake and the finished plot costs money.

The ReproManager automates these steps. Orders arrive validated and are rasterised, colour-calibrated and distributed to the printers.

• Production reliability: automatic data checking for size, rotation, data structure, missing fonts, drawing frame, title block position, colour coverage and much more.
• Cost optimisation: SimCOL 3 colour calibration with the ink-saving module.
• Automatic invoicing: with the OpenPlot module, re-FAST 4win takes over the production data directly, and automatic data imports replace manually entered delivery notes.

Production thus runs with minimal staff involvement and stays profitable even at low unit prices. Misprints caused by incorrect rotation or faulty data are avoided.

Lower staff costs and up to 30% less ink consumption thanks to our SimCOL 3 technology increase the margin. Depending on order volume, the gain exceeds the cost of our software.

Investment protection

Your hardware changes. Your workflow stays.

Our software drives printers, plotters and scanners regardless of the manufacturer. When you replace your devices, your workflows, settings and your staff's know-how stay in place. Our colour technology SimCOL 3 keeps colour reproduction consistent across all output devices.

Your investment in hardware, software and training is protected across several hardware generations.

Support

Support straight from the developers.

We stand behind our software. When you need help as a customer, you talk directly to the people who build your software. No ticket queue, no hand-offs. Via remote support we are on your system within minutes.

In an emergency, customers with a maintenance contract can also reach us outside business hours, at weekends and on public holidays.

Coming soon

More orders for your production.

SmartPlot is our new online shop for CAD plots, construction drawings and engineering drawings. It is aimed at design engineers, planners and construction companies who order online and have no regular reprographic service provider.

The orders are produced by our partners: wherever possible, in an environmentally friendly way, by reprographic businesses in the customer's region or close to the delivery address.

Security comes first: data remains encrypted with AES-256 from the website to the printer. The system is designed so that neither we nor the print service provider have access to the client's original data. All plans are converted into print data and encrypted immediately on the SmartPlot server. The conversion runs fully automatically, without any person having access to the original data.

SmartPlot runs GDPR-compliant on our own servers in the EU, with the data centre for the RIP in our own building.

For you as a reprographic service provider, that means additional orders, and your regular customers remain your customers. Your existing business model is extended without you having to invest in your own online shop.

Service providers who use our ReproManager are given priority when we choose partners. The launch is in preparation. Businesses interested in applying to become a partner are welcome to get in touch now.

Nothing changes for your software. We continue to develop and support ReproManager, re-FAST 4win and COALA 64 HD, just as you are used to. SmartPlot serves an additional market and does not replace any of our products you already use.

With its European set-up and multilingual development, SmartPlot will extend the German market to the markets of other European countries.