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Flex Systems offers several powerful software packages to the direct mail industry and other stemming printing industries. Specifically, they produce software packages that handle variable data print and management, mostly for mailers and printers.
Their flagship product, FlexMail, was initially designed as an inexpensive way of importing data and arranging it on a layout template. In the template, users could include all the appropriate graphics, logos, fonts, and barcodes. Of course, FlexMail still does this, but the number of features have grown.
One of FlexMail's most exciting benefits is the sheer number of print drivers Flex Systems has developed and supported. FlerxMail is compatible with almost every major PCL based inkjet printer in the mailing industry. This includes Secap, Rena, Pitney Bowes, Neopost, Hasler, and even older printers like Bryce and Astro. The appropriate driver automatically loads a template that shows the position of the cartridges in that specific printer. FlexMail also supports some of the higher-end cartridge printers, such as XiJet, Domino L-Series, Walco, and more.
Other Features include the ability to import a PDF background document, produce a PDF Proof, or RIP variable PDF documents. Users can bring in a PDF document, and lay variable data right over the top!
FlexMail's newest feature in the US Market includes USPS Mail Processing. They've made it easy to CASS certify mailing lists and sort it according to postal specifications. What's more, the feature is cloud-based. No monthly updates are needed to keep up with regulations. It's all done by Flex Systems automatically. FlexMail USPS Mail Processing also offers a lot of extra free features, such as NOCA – MOVE Updates, Palletizing, etc.
FlexStream is a sister product. It allows users to generate documents for intelligent inserting equipment. Someone generating variable page statements for inserting equipment need unique identifiers. This is how the inserter distinguishes between documents and sets of documents. FlexStream users can simply overlay the marks to existing PDF documents BEFORE they are printed.
Why is this important? With statement work, it's common for the data to be prepared off-site by an IT team. The IT department does not always know the logic of the mechanical inserting equipment. So FlexStream builds a logical bridge between IT and printing / mailing departments. Now, they can easily generate OMR Marks, 2D Barcodes, or 3 of 9 barcodes that are compatible with envelope inserters. This includes large machines, such as Bell & Howell, Pitney-Bowes, and GBR. It also includes table-top models, such as Neopost, Pitney Bowes, Secap, Hasler, and Formax.
But FlexStream does not stop there. A final feature includes a camera interface, which makes it easy to do several things during the printing and inserting stages. It can read a 2D code on a product exiting an inserter or inkjet addressing printer, and "check it off" against the original file. It will also perform 2 way matches on Inserters, by comparing 2D or Datamatrix codes.
FlexMail also offers Tracking, for Read / Write or Read and Print on an inserter. So it can read a 2D code on an upstream document (in the inserter) and send the data to an inkjet printer to address a matching name on the outside of the envelope. Flexmail can also use an IMB verification camera, and check it against the original print file. It can also be programmed to shut down the inkjet printer or inserter if the IMB code fails to read.
Above all, Flex Systems software packages have one winning benefit: users can add features as they grow, instead of implementing the entire package at once. Not every printer or mailer in the industry needs every feature. So they can pick and choose which features will help them, without having to upgrade all of their equipment (or buy new equipment).
Overall, Flex Systems gets two thumbs up for their products' performance and the ability to integrate it with almost any existing system.