And the workweek has increased five to six days to handle the load. The BancTec S-Series was an obvious choice over competitor systems. Edward Jones' Information Systems crew had narrowed down the options to the few products that were compatible with the existing system application in the St. Louis shop. From there, it was a matter of features. The processing center worked with bar codes, and Fraser was adamant that the new system operate without the need for separator sheets between documents.
Many systems require separator sheets to prompt the system when to send documents to a new folder.
The S-Series reads the bar codes with a 95 percent accuracy rate. And the rate is dramatically improved over that of Edward Jones' previous system. Fewer misreads means less work for operators who have to re-key information. This greatly reduces the potential for jams, which are more common with systems that use rollers to wind the paper through the machine. BancTec's design creates a clean paper path flow.