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like this one would be perfectly functional and not be affected by the 20,000 page limit.
Remember however that this means that 19,000 physical sheets of paper are printed every day,
and those 19,000 documents are written on using one or more Anoto Digital Pens, which are
then processed back into the system.
The example above actually uses numbers that are much higher than our typical PlanetPress
Capture user. That is to say, a vast majority of our users will never have to worry about reaching
the pattern limitation, unless their implementation is missing important parts, such as the
"cleanup" process. But this also means a smaller minority of our users may require more than
20,000 patterns, so let's deal with this now.
Extending
There are actually 2 ways of dealing with extending the number of patterns using the currently
available tools, each with its own advantages and disadvantages.
Using separate PlanetPress Workflow servers and licenses.
In a scenario where there are multiple locations that use PlanetPress Capture and where
neither pen nor paper has any risk of being moved from one location to another, the easiest (but
costlier) solution is to have a separate installation of PlanetPress Workflow in each location.
Each installation would be responsible for its own documents and pens. The limitation here is
that it would not be directly possible to send a page with an existing pattern to another location
(either via email in PDF or via courier), sign it there and send it back - this would cause errors
that would be hard to prevent and correct. In this scenario however, it's possible to centralize
the activation of pen licenses to one server, while keeping the pattern generation systems
separate.
Using Pattern Sequences
In the event where a single location generates all the patterns and this output *can* be split into
multiple logical zones, Pattern Sequences can be used. A Pattern Sequence is basically a
"tag" that is added after the pattern's identification (Pattern ID). When a Pattern Sequence is
used, each Pattern Sequence can re-use each of the 20,000 available patterns. "Zones", in this
case, could refer to a specific region within a city, or a whole city or a province, whatever fits
your needs.
Pattern Sequences can be handled in 2 different ways: by attaching a Pattern Sequence to a
specific pen, or by attaching it to a specific PlanetPress Workflow process. Here is an example
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