COM / CD Services Overview

The information contained in the documents throughout your organization is vitally important to your success.  Like most organizations, you likely have a vast amount of paperwork that needs to be archived for compliance requirements and disaster recovery initiatives.
 

Computer Output to Micrographics Services

Anacomp provides archiving services to meet your needs for secure data storage and easy access.  Utilizing our docHarbor platform, Anacomp provides Computer Output to Micrographics (COM) services, the safest, most economical way to produce and store information for your long-term preservation needs. When stored properly, COM is the most reliable way to protect against technological obsolescence, while meeting legal retention needs.

Guarantee integrity—protect against technology obsolescence

Long term archive— properly developed and preserved film will be usable for hundreds of years  

Achieve compliance— microfilm/microfiche is admissible in place of paper originals in all fifty states and in federal courts  

Reduce physical space—each storage box equals one 4"x4" reel of film or twenty 4”x 6” pieces of microfiche

Minimize legal risk— in case of litigation, retrieval is no longer at risk

COM services are offered as both an outsourced and in-house option. The outsourced option enables you to focus on your core business without incurring additional hardware or software costs.
 

CD Services

Anacomp’s CD Services offer an effective and flexible way to archive and deliver documents.  These CD Services are available as a standalone offering or can be integrated with a LAN or WAN environment.   
 
The docHarbor Desktop PDF Viewer is a service-based document management system that transforms and indexes a broad range of data types to Adobe's widely adopted Portable Document Format (PDF). Our secure Anacomp data centers in various locations throughout the U.S. and Europe then distributes the data, along with a searchable database of metadata information, to you on CD/DVD media.

Using an integrated version of Adobe's Acrobat Reader, your documents are accessible with simple and flexible search capabilities. They are viewable from your desktop via your private network by accessing the documents and metadata on a shared network drive, a local hard drive, or directly off the CD/DVD media using our QuickView installation option. As a service offering, docHarbor Desktop brings other benefits not possible with in-house software solutions:

Fast time to market—the docHarbor Desktop production system is already in operation in our data centers, and our application engineers and implementation teams are already in place. There is no wait to install hardware, load software, or configure systems.

Minimal capital investment—docHarbor Desktop does not require any hardware investment. Just install the Desktop client on the user's desktop to start reaping immediate benefits.

Reduce technology spending and obsolescence—docHarbor Desktop requires only a conventional PC running Windows XP or Windows 2000 or space on your server for the database.

 
Benefits of Digital Media
 

Effective and convenient way to distribute high-volume documents throughout your firm

Ideal for archival storage and regulatory compliance requirements

Assists with business continuity and disaster recovery issues since the CDs are independent of specific business systems