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v At the end v Between sections The auxiliary sheet can have information printed on it, or it can be blank. InfoPrint Manager provides five default types of auxiliary sheets, but you can customize your own sheets if necessary. You can also apply a user-exit program to control the information printed on an auxiliary sheet. Media A medium represents the type of media, that is, paper, envelopes, transparencies, or multi-part forms, that an actual destination prints on. You can configure a medium to describe its dimensions, color, purpose, or any other useful information. InfoPrint Manager uses the names of media as values for actual destination attributes, such as media-supported. Actual destination attributes that reference media can use any name as long as the name is within syntax limits. Resource contexts When properly configured, InfoPrint Manager automatically locates the AFP resources (fonts, overlays, form definitions, page definitions, and page segments) that print jobs require. You can store the resources in a centrally available location and then use InfoPrint Manager resource contexts to identify the location. After you have configured the resource contexts, InfoPrint Manager automatically locates the AFP resources required by a job and then uses them for processing. Transforms Transforms are InfoPrint objects (like queues and destinations) that you create and configure in InfoPrint Manager. Transforms receive data in a particular format or formats, process the data in some way, and output the changed data. When you create a transform, you have complete control over what data format or formats it operates on and what type of processing it does. The processing that the transform performs can be anything from simply copying the data to a different place on disk, to filtering the data stream that the transform receives (for example, to remove a particular PostScript® order), to transforming the data to a completely different format (for example, converting PCL to AFP). In addition, you can specify whether you want the file that the transform produces to be printed. If the transform doesn't submit the file to be printed (for example, if the transform completes its processing and saves the file to a different location), it is called a terminating transform. Sizing your InfoPrint Manager environment The number of InfoPrint Manager servers you need depends on many factors. In this section, we provide only an overview of the most important performance issues that can influence your server purchase plans. To begin, the features and configurations of each InfoPrint Manager server system are extremely important. Important server factors that affect printing system performance includes: v Processor speed v Number of processors v Available RAM v Available hard disk space Chapter 1. Introducing InfoPrint Manager for Windows 5

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v
At the end
v
Between sections
The auxiliary sheet can have information printed on it, or it can be blank. InfoPrint
Manager provides five default types of auxiliary sheets, but you can customize
your own sheets if necessary. You can also apply a
user-exit program
to control the
information printed on an auxiliary sheet.
Media
A medium represents the type of media, that is, paper, envelopes, transparencies,
or multi-part forms, that an actual destination prints on. You can configure a
medium to describe its dimensions, color, purpose, or any other useful
information.
InfoPrint Manager uses the names of media as values for actual destination
attributes, such as
media-supported
. Actual destination attributes that reference
media can use any name as long as the name is within syntax limits.
Resource contexts
When properly configured, InfoPrint Manager automatically locates the AFP
resources (fonts, overlays, form definitions, page definitions, and page segments)
that print jobs require. You can store the resources in a centrally available location
and then use InfoPrint Manager resource contexts to identify the location. After
you have configured the resource contexts, InfoPrint Manager automatically locates
the AFP resources required by a job and then uses them for processing.
Transforms
Transforms
are InfoPrint objects (like queues and destinations) that you create and
configure in InfoPrint Manager. Transforms receive data in a particular format or
formats, process the data in some way, and output the changed data. When you
create a transform, you have complete control over what data format or formats it
operates on and what type of processing it does. The processing that the transform
performs can be anything from simply copying the data to a different place on
disk, to filtering the data stream that the transform receives (for example, to
remove a particular PostScript
®
order), to transforming the data to a completely
different format (for example, converting PCL to AFP).
In addition, you can specify whether you want the file that the transform produces
to be printed. If the transform doesn’t submit the file to be printed (for example, if
the transform completes its processing and saves the file to a different location), it
is called a
terminating transform
.
Sizing your InfoPrint Manager environment
The number of InfoPrint Manager servers you need depends on many factors. In
this section, we provide only an overview of the most important performance
issues that can influence your server purchase plans. To begin, the features and
configurations of each InfoPrint Manager server system are extremely important.
Important server factors that affect printing system performance includes:
v
Processor speed
v
Number of processors
v
Available RAM
v
Available hard disk space
Chapter 1. Introducing InfoPrint Manager for Windows
5