Suggestion for Industrial-strength Printing with dynaSight

OK, so your project requires large scale printing features and every document is to be printable. No problem you say and sit down to the task. The real problems come in the maintenance of such an application. When many documents in an applications must be printable than should any changes be required you are forced to go through each document and make the changes. This increases maintenance costs tremendously as well as being extremely time-consuming slowing the turn-around time for modifications.

We recommend that you centralize the administration of print documents by using print templates. This has many advantages such as quick turn-around times for modifications, uniform look-and-feel for all printed reports, easy for other developers to help maintain the application.

In fact, if you do your homework correctly, you can offer several printing formats for the same screen document. You can administer which documents are sent to which templates for printing through a few database entries or in one central dynaSight document. Adding new screens and making them printable then becomes as easy as assigning an existing template to the given screen.

You cannot believe how much work this has saved us as well as helped our client accomplish complex project requirements within budget.

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