Dashwood Consulting offers a range of technology products to assist in enhancing your document and web communication. Relationships with our partners have been created to make available the following as part of a larger solution or as stand alone products.
CodeZ QR - Allowing platform independent integration with your existing products, allows you to store single or double byte data in the industry standard 2-dimensional QR code. Increase interaction and response from your printed and electronic documents with static or personalised QR codes.
FontZ - COPI is the recognised the leader in high-definition, high-volume font technology. We give you access to both the COPI range of font services and their font products.
For nearly 20 years, PrintSoft has been a world leader in document composition products. Dashwood Consulting offer solutions training and consulting and give you access to PrintSoft's complete range of PReS-based products, whether it be a single site, or enterprise wide environment.
Over the last 15+ years, GDS Document Systems based in Hamburg, Germany, have been at he forefront of PReS-based document solutions in Northern Europe and Scandinavia. Over this time they have developed some exceptional complementary products to the PReS development environment.
Dashwood Consulting are independent and objective, working with a number of other software development companies at various levels in this category. This makes many additional products also available from other industry leaders too.
CodeZ QR™
CodeZ QR™ brings interactivity to the printed document
High-volume transaction output operations require increasingly sophisticated print and scan solutions. 2D barcodes have come to be the recognised best practice in the industry and the CodeZ QR solution represents their next evolution.
While 2D bar codes such as CodeZ Matrix have long proven to be very effective for post process control, with the advent of the CodeZ QR product marketing professionals now have a tool that can help to bring interactivity to a printed document. Making printed documents interactive helps marketers achieve the previously elusive goal of Cross Media Integration (CMI) of Transpromotional documents with online media assets to create cohesive and unified marketing tools. And amazingly CodeZ QR unleashes the power of recipient interactivity in the same real estate previously allocated to simple post processing and document control barcodes.
How does CodeZ QR deliver interactivity to the document?
CodeZ QR is a high density barcode readable by cell phones and simple PC cams.
Recipients can quickly and easily interact with the QR enabled transactional documents they receive. They simply point their camera at the QR symbol and they are instantly connected to a QR-encoded url without the recipient ever having to remember or type in numbers and promotional codes, they just point and shoot. The web page could be a sales video, or a coupon or product promotion encoded with the specific recipient's demographic profile.
Marketers can QR encode personalised URLs (pURLs) or other web links into a small section of the transpromotional document's page real estate to enable direct links to the online world. The ease of the process and the fact that the PURL is hidden to the naked eye greatly increases response rates to transform transaction documents into true cross media integration vehicles for increased customer retention and new customer development.
COPI is the recognised the leader in high-definition, high-volume font technology. They have been serving the specialty font needs of its global client base for most of the last three decades, providing money-saving, font-based solutions to the world's largest companies in support of their most mission critical applications.
Dashwood Consulting has partnered with COPI to give you direct access to their FontZ products and font-based services.
Ask us how COPI has saved client's hundreds of thousands of dollars with font design adjustments that are only possible by professionals with the font wisdom that comes with deep experience across multiple output platforms.
PrintSoft's PReS
PrintSoft and their PReS range of document composition products are recognised leaders throughout the world.
With our extensive knowledge and expertise in PrintSoft's complete range of PReS document composition products, Dashwood Consulting can work with you to determine the most appropriate technology for your script-based or WYSIWYG document composition product needs.
If you are an existing PrintSoft customer, Dashwood Consulting can also work with you to extend your PReS-based environment with the range of tried and proved complementary products from GDS Document Systems.
As a PrintSoft Certified Professional, Brett Dashwood and DashwoodConsulting can also facilitate Training for you and your staff to help you meet the requirements for PrintSoft Certified Professional accreditation.
GDS Document Systems
GDS are known throughout Europe for the detail to quality and comprehensive technology and documents solutions, primarily based around PrintSoft's range of products.
Dashwood Consulting are proud to announce that we are a reseller of GDS Document Systems range of products in Australia, New Zealand, Asia Pacific and the Americas.
More detailed information on the products will be available shortly, however this will include the following:
1D & 2D Barcode Toolkits - using PDL elements, not images
Graphics Printer Driver for Windows
DB Grab
Data Holder
Products to help manage your production environment
PQMS - Print Queue Management System
Independent and Objective
Dashwood Consulting are independent and objective, working with a number of other software development companies at various levels in this category.
If there is a product you are evaluating or would like to evaluate as part of a Dashwood Consulting solution, please contact us.
Or maybe you don't see your products here and would like to, contact us so that we can make additional products available, either as part of a larger solution or as stand alone products.
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As a PrintSoft Certified Professional, Brett Dashwood and Dashwood Consulting can also facilitate 
