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Print servers, InfoPrint Manager, InfoPrint ProcessDirector

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Print servers InfoPrint print servers receive print jobs from various sources and prepare them to be sent to a printer. After print jobs have been prepared, the print server interacts with the printer to make sure that all the required resources are available, then sends the print job data to be printed. Several different print servers are available. Although they provide much of the same function, they are appropriate for different environments. InfoPrint Manager InfoPrint Manager is a flexible and scalable print management solution for AIX or Windows that provides many choices in expanding and managing your print environment. InfoPrint Manager can process print jobs that contain references to color management resources and interact with centralized resource libraries. When InfoPrint Manager receives AFP or line data print jobs, it processes CMRs and data objects similar to the way it processes other AFP resources. You can add the resource libraries that you create using AFP Resource Installer to the Location of presentation object containers property (also called the resource-contextpresentation-object-container attribute) of your actual destinations. Then, InfoPrint Manager can search those resource libraries to find data objects and CMRs when print jobs request them. Enabling capture for CMRs: If the jobs that run through your system use the same CMRs, you might want to enable your actual destination to capture inline CMRs. These inline CMRs must have an object identified (OID) so InfoPrint Manager can capture them. From the InfoPrint Manager Administration GUI: 1. Click on the actual destination and select Printer → Properties. 2. From the actual destination's Printer Properties notebook, click the Tuning tab. 3. Find the Capture inline CMR resources radio button. If you can't see the Capture inline CMR resources radio button, click Show more. 4. Scroll to the bottom of the screen and click the Yes radio button for the Capture inline CMR resources setting. Page Printer Formatting Aid (PPFA): PPFA is a feature of InfoPrint Manager that lets you create form definitions and page definitions for use with your AFP print jobs. You can use PPFA to associate CMRs with form definitions and page definitions for your color print jobs. The form definitions and page definitions that you create using PPFA can be used in print jobs that are sent to InfoPrint Manager and InfoPrint ProcessDirector. InfoPrint ProcessDirector InfoPrint ProcessDirector is a database-driven print workflow system that lets you manage all aspects of your printing process. The server runs on an AIX or Linux® system and is accessed using a Web browser-based interface. InfoPrint ProcessDirector can receive and process AFP print jobs that include AFP color management objects. Chapter 25. Color and grayscale printing using AFP 245

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Print servers
InfoPrint print servers receive print jobs from various sources and prepare them to
be sent to a printer. After print jobs have been prepared, the print server interacts
with the printer to make sure that all the required resources are available, then
sends the print job data to be printed.
Several different print servers are available. Although they provide much of the
same function, they are appropriate for different environments.
InfoPrint Manager
InfoPrint Manager is a flexible and scalable print management solution for AIX or
Windows that provides many choices in expanding and managing your print
environment. InfoPrint Manager can process print jobs that contain references to
color management resources and interact with centralized resource libraries.
When InfoPrint Manager receives AFP or line data print jobs, it processes CMRs
and data objects similar to the way it processes other AFP resources. You can add
the resource libraries that you create using AFP Resource Installer to the Location
of presentation object containers property (also called the resource-context-
presentation-object-container attribute) of your actual destinations. Then, InfoPrint
Manager can search those resource libraries to find data objects and CMRs when
print jobs request them.
Enabling capture for CMRs:
If the jobs that run through your system use the same CMRs, you might want to
enable your actual destination to capture inline CMRs.
These inline CMRs must have an object identified (OID) so InfoPrint Manager can
capture them.
From the
InfoPrint Manager Administration GUI
:
1.
Click on the actual destination and select
Printer
Properties
.
2.
From the actual destination's
Printer Properties
notebook, click the
Tuning
tab.
3.
Find the
Capture inline CMR resources
radio button. If you can't see the
Capture inline CMR resources
radio button, click
Show more
.
4.
Scroll to the bottom of the screen and click the
Yes
radio button for the
Capture
inline CMR resources
setting.
Page Printer Formatting Aid (PPFA):
PPFA is a feature of InfoPrint Manager that lets you create form definitions and
page definitions for use with your AFP print jobs. You can use PPFA to associate
CMRs with form definitions and page definitions for your color print jobs.
The form definitions and page definitions that you create using PPFA can be used
in print jobs that are sent to InfoPrint Manager and InfoPrint ProcessDirector.
InfoPrint ProcessDirector
InfoPrint ProcessDirector is a database-driven print workflow system that lets you
manage all aspects of your printing process. The server runs on an AIX or Linux
®
system and is accessed using a Web browser-based interface. InfoPrint
ProcessDirector can receive and process AFP print jobs that include AFP color
management objects.
Chapter 25. Color and grayscale printing using AFP
245