RPM Remote Print Manager LPD Print Server
RPM Remote Print Manager® is a Windows® LPD Print Server that receives mainframe, midrange, UNIX, Linux, and Windows documents. RPM can apply special formatting or custom operations and print or save to Windows-based devices.
RPM takes cross-platform printing to new levels receiving and processing documents from host systems. Printing or saving the documents on Windows-based resources will lower your printing costs and make your printing processes more efficient. RPM will streamline and improve your document work flows.
Use RPM to Save Time and Money and Increase Efficiency
Flexible LPD Solution
- Receive print jobs over standard TCP/IP lines from local or remote host systems, including iSeries, mainframe, midrange, UNIX, Linux, and Windows
- Apply formatting, perform data transformations, or call third-party applications, all before printing or archiving the document
- Use RPM print queues to improve, simplify, or consolidate your print environment
Whether you want to lower printing costs by using an existing Windows network and printers, or you want to archive or perform other operations on print data, including formatting and transformations, RPM Remote Print Manager helps you do more with the documents and print data from your host systems. RPM will save you time, increase efficiency, and lower your printing costs in your mainframe, AS/400, or any host printing environment.
 RPM gives you unparalleled flexibility in AS/400 (iSeries™ / zSeries®) network print management |
RPM offers several key enhancements for AS/400 printing requirements not serviced by other print servers. Setup is very simple; define an output queue on the AS/400, and then send a job or query. RPM receives the request from the AS/400 and creates a processing queue automatically. Each queue can be fully customized to handle specific requirements. |
| Easily format UNIX spool files with RPM before they are sent to your Windows-attached printer |
RPM will format ANY UNIX text file and print to ANY Windows printer, regardless of paper size, tray selection, # of copies, paper orientation, or printer destination. RPM will translate ASA/FORTRAN control characters to PC printer commands on the fly. |
| Easily write incoming data from ANY host system, to any Windows resource (print to file) |
Using RPM and RPM saves incoming files/data (from host systems) to your Windows PC or to a localized archive/storage disk. With RPM, you have the flexibility to save your print jobs to file and print data from across the world or from your local mainframe down the hall. |
| RPM gives you the ability to handle many text formats intelligently while providing a simple interface |
RPM lets you print to any Windows printer available to the PC; text printing goes one step further by using the printer settings you select. For instance, open a queue and select the printer, then the orientation (Landscape or Portrait) and the paper size (e.g. Letter or A4). Save these settings and RPM will use them whenever it prints to this queue.
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RPM Queue Types
The key to RPM's power and flexibility in working with print data from different systems is its intelligent use of print queues. There are three types of queues available in RPM, each designed to handle incoming documents in unique ways. You can set up as many print queues as you want, and each queue has its own printer setup information and operates independently of other queues.
- Apply printer finishing functions to mainframe / host spool files. Receive text print data and modify it for Windows printing.
- Modify margins, lines per inch/page, characters per inch, and fonts to fit text on any size paper without host system modification.
- Suppress banner and blank pages, wrap lines, remove control characters, and select international code pages (one- and two-byte).
- Set printer finishing functions, such as portrait/landscape, duplexing, stapling, watermarks (please visit ExcelliPrint for IPDS AFP watermarks), n-up, and others.
- Receive host print jobs and save them to disk.
- Call third-party applications to work with the print job file.
- Save documents to disk for archiving, or translate LF to CR/LF.
- Choose from flexible file naming options, such as using print job data (e.g. date/time, user, etc), using prefixes, or appending jobs to an existing file; also includes duplicate file name handling.
- Receive print jobs from the host and send them directly to the printer (pass-through) without any modification to the data.
- Translate LF to CR/LF, resolving the common UNIX "stair-step" printing issue.
- Insert a page separator between print jobs.
Print data options
Transformations, translations, and other options are available within all queues, regardless of queue type. These options allow you to modify your print data in various ways to prepare it for printing or for the next process in your workflow. These print data options are as follows:
Transform
- Remove PCL/PJL codes.
- Convert ASA carriage control characters, eliminating the need for the host computer to perform the translation.
- Convert SCS to ASCII, with SCS markup preservation for text queues.
- Convert EBCDIC to ASCII, with support for country-specific extensions to EBCDIC.
- Use installed code pages (single- and double-byte) to translate print jobs into a form that Windows can print.
Translate
Insert
- Insert either a series of bytes or a file at the beginning of a print job.
- Insert or suppress a banner page.
Append
- Append a set of bytes at the end of a print job.
- Append a file at the end of a print job.
Other
- Remove selected bytes from the beginning of a print job.
- Set Windows job information, such as document title and user, from information in the control file.
- Place print jobs on hold if RPM is unable to open the printer for spooling.
Please try RPM for free by downloading the 21-day fully functional trial. If you need help or have questions, please call our technical support department at +1 (208) 523-6970 or email support. RPM is used in more than half the countries around the world and trusted by government agencies, universities, and Fortune 500 companies worldwide! 
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