Dan Casper's blog

Print Filtering, Resource Conservation -- a Case Study in Not Wasting Paper

Submitted by Dan Casper on Tue, 10/05/2010 - 19:29

This post shows how RPM Remote Print Manager® "filter" action can not only customize a print job but can also completely change the job handling itself.

The Scenario:  An automated mainframe system sends thousands of print jobs daily. 

The Problem:  95% of these automated print jobs are useless.  They are not actionable, and do not require any kind of human interaction.  Unfortunately, they still consume and waste resources. 

The Solution:  Prevent hard copy output of print jobs matching specific criteria.   Read more »

PCL Printer Emulation - Font and Macro Caching

Submitted by Dan Casper on Tue, 09/28/2010 - 13:11

For most people, printing is a two step process:

  1. Click the Print button.
  2. Retrieve the print out. 

Unfortunately, it's not always that simple.  When you get into the world of networked printers, mainframe formats, and print language conversion there is a lot more than meets the eye.  Today's question was whether or not RPM Remote Print Manager could emulate a networked PCL printer.  Specifically, can RPM cache fonts and macros that are sent as separate print jobs and convert them to PDF. Read more »

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