RPM Remote Print Manager Technical Features

Automatically Email Print Files

• RPM will automatically email print files received from a host system to one or multiple locations

Drag and drop files from Windows

• Use RPM processing without sending the file through the network print procedure

Drag & drop between queues

• Easily copy jobs from one queue to another

Duplicate queues quickly

• Replaces the cumbersome process of storing and re-using queue settings

Text to PDF output

• Automatically convert host print files to PDF
• PDFs mimic text print jobs, for print archiving
• PDFs support Asian languages, and right to left printing
• Print text and save a copy in PDF for easy archiving and retrieval

Multi-threaded output

• Small jobs don't have to wait in line behind large jobs
• Drive more than one printer at a time
• Increased throughput

Fully customizable print job workflow

• Transforms are now broken out, full user control
• Transforms can be specified in any order and can repeat as needed

Text to PCL output

• PCL output mimics text print jobs allowing RPM to use full printer speed
• Supports many PCL commands such as duplexing and paper tray selections

Text to HTML output

• HTML output mimics text print jobs allowing RPM to populate an HTML server with pages automatically
• Output similar to text output with accurate representation of print documents

Unicode support

• Read and write UTF-8, UCS-2, ISO code pages, EBCDIC, and many others
• More support for multi-byte character sets

Computer Output Reduction (COR)

• Provides the ability to automatically rotate orientation and scale the font size

Print job archiving

• Keep a maximum number of jobs, or for a maximum time period

Reprint jobs

• Any archived job can be reprinted or copied to another queue

Email status and alerts

• Optional email status to user when job prints
• Optional email alert or SMS message on printer error / recover
   

Automated device testing

• Any device that goes to error will be tested periodically
• If your printer goes offline, RPM will start printing to it again when it becomes available

Insert & Append Bytes

• You can insert bytes (using our built-in byte editor) or a file before the print job data.
• You can also append bytes (again, with our byte editor) or a file after the print job data.
• Read more about RPM Inserting & Appending Bytes

Banner Page Support

• RPM asks whether a banner page should be inserted into the data before printing.
• The drop list offers three choices: suppress banner, always print, and when requested.
• Read more about RPM's Banner Page Support

UNIX to DOS (Convert LF to CR/LF)

• One of our more frequent requests is to solve the "stair-step" problem.
• This often happens when a UNIX file is sent to a DOS printer.
• Read more about UNIX to DOS Printing

String Translations

• RPM supports custom character translations.
• The user can create named translation tables that specify one-to-one single byte translations, that is, any character to any other character.
• Read more about String Translations

ASA Carriage Control

• RPM translates ASA Carriage Control format and prints the results.
• This eliminates the need for the host computer to perform the translation into a more standard format such as PCL or PDF.
• Read more about ASA carriage control

Convert EBCDIC to ASCII

• RPM can convert EBCDIC text to ASCII.
• RPM also supports country-specific extensions to EBCDIC, translating characters not used in the US or United Kingdom to the appropriate ISO 8859-1 codes.
• Read more about EBCDIC to ASCII conversion

Convert SCS to ASCII

• RPM can interpret SCS codes and translate them to ASCII. 
• For non-text printing RPM creates line-oriented output using carriage return for overstrikes as appropriate.
• For text output RPM preserves the SCS markup and reproduces attributes such as margins, font size, character position, etc.
• Read more about SCS to ASCII

Use Installed Code Page

• RPM is able to use installed code pages to translate print jobs into a form that Windows can print.
• Code pages typically have a maximum character length of 1 or 2.
• Single-byte code pages include East European, and double-byte code pages include Asian languages such as Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), and Chinese (Traditional).
• Read more about using RPM's Installed Code Page

Remove PCL Codes

• RPM optionally strips PCL codes from a print job.
• Text printing does this automatically, but you can also select it for pass-through and filter printing.
• Read more about Removing PCL Codes