Silver Bullet’s Ranger® Software Now Available for Epson’s CaptureOne™ Check Scanners
PENSACOLA, FL, November 18th, 2008 – Today at the BAI Retail Banking Conference & Expo, Silver Bullet Technology, Inc. a leader in Check 21 data and image tools, and Epson, a leading supplier of value-added banking and payment hardware solutions, announced that the Ranger® Transport API is now available for Epson’s CaptureOne™ check scanner. By using CaptureOne with the Ranger interface, banks can take advantage of the industry’s most reliable check scanner for branch and remote capture applications without changes to their existing software applications.
“Epson’s CaptureOne delivers the most accurate Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) of any desktop scanner available today,” said Bud Weist, vice president of sales and marketing, Epson System Device Group. “Now that CaptureOne supports Ranger, a broader base of financial institutions can take advantage of the product with their item processing applications-it’s a solid choice for many more banks.”
“We are pleased to support Epson’s CaptureOne product,” said Bryan Clark, CEO, Silver Bullet. “This pairing gives the financial sector a high-quality, cost-effective scanner that will support all of their remote deposit operations with virtually no application changes or functionality limitations.”
Ranger Features and Benefits Ranger Transport API is a software tool that allows banks to use virtually any item processing software with virtually any check scanning hardware. Ranger provides the flexibility to use check scanners manufactured by different vendors, without application changes. Financial institutions also gain greater control over system configuration, since they can mix and match different types of item processing software with check scanner hardware.
CaptureOne Features and Benefits Epson’s compact CaptureOne scanner delivers highly reliable, cost effective check scanning by incorporating one of the most powerful MICR algorithms in the industry, delivering the best MICR read rate of any desktop scanner available today. Designed for branch capture and remote deposit capture applications, CaptureOne comes in both 30 and 60 documents-per-minute (DPM) versions and offers innovative features including electronic endorsement, built-in franker, double check detector to eliminate double check feeding, 100-check document feeder and industry-leading two year warranty.
About Epson
Epson is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of highly reliable point-of-service technology, including printers, precision printing mechanisms and digital image scanners. For the third year in a row (2006-2008), retailers have ranked Epson first in POS peripherals in the RIS News “Hardware LeaderBoard.” Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Long Beach, CA, Epson America, Inc. is the U.S. affiliate of Japan-based Seiko Epson Corporation, a global manufacturer and supplier of high-quality technology products that meet customer demands for increased functionality, compactness, systems integration and energy efficiency. For more information, please visit pos.epson.com/financial.
About Silver Bullet Technology
Pensacola, FL-based Silver Bullet Technology, Inc. is the industry’s foremost check scanner software developer, offering a comprehensive suite of Check 21 solutions and software tools. Silver Bullet has considerable experience working directly with financial institutions, scanner manufacturers and software vendors. Silver Bullet’s newest software tool, Scout™, remotely tracks MICR and image quality and hardware performance, and displays the results in a concise web-based format. For more information, visit www.sbullet.com
