RPM Remote Print Manager Provides Custom Printing

RPM Remote Print Manager™ is an LPD Print Server that gives you the tools to completely customize your Host and Mainframe print files. RPM will perform transforms on the print job, and then send the print job where you need it to go:

• Windows text printer (network or local)
• direct to a Windows printer in the printers own format (also network or local)
• print to file or archive to a folder (network or local)
• email to one or more recipients
• run a third party application on your print job

RPM can create PDF, HTML, plain text, send your print job in the body of an email or as an attachment, and more.

And, of course, print!

RPM Makes Cross-platform Printing Simple and Affordable

Most print servers start and end with sending your print file directly to a physical printer. RPM can do that very well but that's just the beginning.

Let's consider your pass through (or raw) print job. In RPM, raw printing is one of our supported actions. Before RPM hands your print job off to an action, it performs one more more transforms in order. Here's a short list of what our clients are doing with transformns and the raw print action:

• use the string translator to change PCL codes, for instance mapping to a different tray
• skip a banner page inserted by your mainframe by removing lines until the first instance of "PAGE"
• insert a byte string to put the printer into a specific mode
• insert a file containing a form ahead of the print job

RPM provides close to forty transforms. We've listed just a few examples here. RPM is structured 100% to provide you the maximum flexibility we know how to acheive. And thanks to steady input from our clients, we are adding more capabilities all the time.

Using RPM to convert mainframe print data streams is far more economical than recoding mainframe applications or replacing high-volume printers. RPM provides the necessary conversion technology to include IBM mainframe-generated documents in your Windows network environment workflow, whether you are printing these documents to Windows-based printers or saving the files to disk for archiving or further processing.

RPM Versions

RPM comes in two strengths:

• RPM Select, provides all the core features and access to 10 devices
• RPM Elite, provides additional features and access to 99 devices; you can also license more devices, up to unlimited

Both RPM Select and RPM Elite are at version 5.0:

• Here's a comparison between RPM Elite and Select
• Changes between version 4.5 and 5.0
• Recent product changes