| Office and process efficiency are becoming more | | | | 14 additional copies. If the document is to be secure, |
| important every day to all sizes of business. One of | | | | each page should be stamped, requiring 21 manual |
| the easier ways to start saving is to automate the | | | | impressions to be made - one for each of page of the |
| simple manual tasks that consume unnecessary time | | | | document. Combine that with the fact that most |
| every day. | | | | self-inking stamps will obliterate the text of the |
| While there has been a substantial move towards | | | | document. That means that the document has to be |
| electronic documents, the paperless office is still a | | | | stamped in the margins of the page resulting in a |
| myth. It's use has only started to level off in the last | | | | "copy" that can become an original by simply blocking |
| year. We still use incredible amounts of paper for initial | | | | out the stamp in the margin. |
| and final document production. One of areas that is | | | | Further, the time that is wasted by the worker going to |
| easily optimized is the document marking process. The | | | | a copy machine, marking and assembling the copies, |
| use of self-inking stamps in the business environment | | | | stopping at the water cooler, socializing and making it |
| inhibits productivity and wastes time in almost every | | | | back to their desk accounts for an average of eight |
| instance of paper-based workflows. Moreover, it is | | | | (8) minutes of time per event. Add that up over a year |
| highly insecure from a document integrity perspective. | | | | - at just once per day - and the lost time (productivity) |
| The use of self-inking and/or "rubber" stamps for | | | | averages over $750/yr. per worker |
| paper-based workflows is an archaic and grossly | | | | Using an automated document marking add-in for |
| inefficient form of document marking. Evidence of this | | | | Word or creating your own macros (for simple |
| exists in the simple fact that the use of self-inking | | | | marking) virtually eliminates the necessity for using |
| stamps is a manual process that can be more | | | | rubber stamps for document identification. If you save |
| efficiently performed by a word processor with the | | | | only one unnecessary trip per day to a copy machine |
| right automation. Add to that, if an information worker | | | | - you save an average of more than $750/yr. per |
| requires multiple copies of a document to be stamped | | | | information worker. And if you are short on workers |
| and the document has multiple pages, each page | | | | as the case may be in today's economy, it will save |
| requires identification if the document is to be secure | | | | you time you can ill afford to loose. Using automated |
| and/or protected. Otherwise, at least the first page of | | | | graphical document marking in the business |
| each copy needs to be stamped. | | | | environment affords document integrity, security, |
| Lets take an example. If a worker has a seven page | | | | standardization and regulatory compliance that cannot |
| document and needs three copies, the worker will | | | | be had from self-inking stamps. Manual processes |
| usually print the original, then leave their workstation | | | | cannot accomplish these so very necessary |
| and go to a copy machine. There, they will make the | | | | objectives. |
