Company Information

Zytron started life over 20 years ago as the Outsource Service Division of a highly innovative Houston company (The Company). The Company spun off the Outsource Service Division in March 2000. The division manager purchased the division and renamed it Zytron.

Zytron’s management philosophy is supportive of profit reinvestment in personnel, equipment and facilities. As a result of this strategy we are able to maintain extremely high levels of customer service during our periods of growth. In today’s market place the consumer is typically faced with two choices, the large national service corporation or the small local company.  The national company makes service level decisions at some distant corporate headquarters. Their systems and procedures are standardized and do not lend themselves to custom solutions. Typically the local organization has the flexibility but not the resources needed to support custom solutions. We believe Zytron stands alone as a company, small enough create and support custom solutions, while large enough to have the resources to implement and support the solutions. As a division of The Company we were first among electronic printing service bureaus in Houston to:

Zytron is grateful for the culture we enjoy. This is what allows us to attract and keep the very best personnel our industry has to offer. Zytron has virtually no employee turnover. Our employees each average over fifteen years experience in the electronic printing industry.      

Zytron Innovations

First Service in Houston to offer laser Printing

The Outsource Service Division began offering laser printing as an outsource service option in 1977. This was shortly after Xerox had introduced their first laser printer the Xerox 1200.   

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First Service in Houston to create microfiche from Meta Code and DJDE input

Xerox integrated a microfiche subsystem with their 9700 laser printer. The Outsource Service Division acquired several of these devices and offered output from these systems as a service. This service continued to be the only option for output of Xerox formatted data to Microfiche for many years.

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First Service in Houston to offer microfiche creation via remote online camera using RJE

The Outsource Service Division won a major contract from a national competitor by their creative use of technology. A major Oil company was transmitting fiche data to their service bureau by writing tape to remote channel attached tape drives. The Outsource Service Division installed and configured a PC which looked like a token ring attached RJE printer to the client’s mainframe. This system eliminated most operator intervention. This resulted in significant cost reduction. Additionally, a custom distribution/production system was created which allowed current and historical job accounting, electronic detail billing and application labeling. Configuration and installation were done with no interruption to production, which was in excess of thirty five thousand microfiche monthly.   

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First Service in Houston to offer COLD CD service 

COLD technology was first developed as an in-house data storage option. In those early days CD burners cost in excess of three thousand dollars and discs cost in excess of twenty five dollars each. We recognized the role CDs could fill in our client’s information management equation. The Outsource Service Division obtained COLD software and modified it to allow CD creation. The software developer was so impressed with the results that we were requested to demonstrate our innovation on their behalf in their booth at a trade show.

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First Service in Houston to create and process files sent from client via TWINAX

A fortune 500 company was using two laser printers attached to their AS400 to print their accounting and payroll data including checks. The client was having turnaround problems with critical accounting reports and checks. They were unable to increase printing equipment due to space constraints. The Outsource Service Division was able to determine that the printers were not running at rated speed due to the TWINAX attachment. We eliminated the bottleneck by installing multiple logical TWINAX printers on the AS400 and ‘printing to’ (creating files on) a PC. The five logical printers were able to keep adequate data in the PC queue to allow the Xerox printers to run at rated speeds. This client elected to outsource the entire print room activity to us thereby moving it offsite. In addition to printing their reports we also created CDs from selected data.

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First Service in Houston to create and process files sent from client via TCP/IP

A Zytron client was moving certain systems from their AS400 to a client server environment. As a result they needed high-speed print capability for these reports. Zytron responded by installing a PC, which looked like TCP/IP printers to the network. The reports were ‘printed’ (files created) on/to this system. Zytron software was written to check the PC’s queue and determine what files were present. A lookup database was then used to supply the proper printer controls (DJDE) to allow printing on our Xerox printers and/or creation of CDs.

Certain Windows applications, which create PCL, are routed to high-speed PCL printers. 

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Last modified: November 14, 2002