Inevitably, managers of network print environments will have to find ways to customize print requests. This customization often involves sending jobs to specific printers based on certain criteria or manipulating the print data in any number of ways. Network print managers must try to balance the print loads between printers and ensure that jobs sent to failed printers are rerouted to functioning resources.

Print server software, like Brooks Internet Software’s RPM Remote Print Manager®, can make the job of dealing with customized print jobs almost effortless. ExcelliPrint software allows you to print IPDS AFP documents to ANY printer, now you do not have to purchase special & expensive IPDS printers.

Common Customization Requests

Translations

• EBCDIC to ASCII
• SCS to ASCII
• ASA Carriage Control formatted data into commands that the printer can interpret
• Custom character translations by creating translation tables that define one-to-one single byte translations
• Convert LF to CR/LF for UNIX printing on Windows-based printer

Transformations

• PCL code removal
• Character output reduction to print AS/400 spool files configured to print on 14 7/8 x 11 7/8 green bar paper on standard paper sizes
• Appending and inserting bytes

Network Printing Challenges

• Write to disk AND print to a printing device at the same time with flexible file name and file saving options
• Code page support for text printing
• Custom printer finishing options
• Adding a banner page containing control file information
• Watermark and print overlays and merging overlays to documents: output to PDF
• Specifying page ranges to print for an ASCII text file

Resource Management Issues

• Broadcast printing for printing a single file on multiple printers
• Service Location Protocol (SLP) support for easier user/resource interaction
• Failover printing to ensure that jobs are printed successfully
• RPM and Dymo Label Printers for Healthcare Systems
• Command line printing using INTELLIscribe
• Print job archiving to easily view your print history
• Easy reprinting with one click of the mouse
• Round-robin printing for use with multiple, similar printers for predictable printer utilization
• Print job destination balancing to ensure balanced job loads between multiple printers