RPM Remote Print Manager Technical Features

Print processing features Multi-threaded output Fully customizable print job workflow Print job archiving Reprint jobs Email status and alerts Automated device testing GUI Drag and drop files from Windows Drag and drop print jobs between queues Duplicate queues quickly with copy and paste Actions--things you can do to print jobs Print jobs to any Windows printer, Elite only: text watermark Supports native printer formats Sent print jobs via email Run a program on your print job Copy print jobs to other queues for further processing

Transforms--things you can do to print jobs Elite only: PCL to PDF Elite only: run a program on your data midstream Text to PDF output, Elite only: PDF password and permissions, PDF watermark Convert plain text, optional auto-calculate best fit Text to PCL output Text to HTML output Unicode support Computer Output Reduction (COR) Insert & Append Data Remove PCL Codes UNIX to Dos String translations, optional regular expressions ASA Carriage Control EBCDIC to ASCII Conversion Convert SCS to PDF, text print, HTML, plain text, PCL. etc. Code Page Support Variety of banner page types supported

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
• RPM Select has two print tasks, RPM Elite starts at 5, configurable to 256

Fully customizable print job workflow

• Transforms are now broken out, full user control
• Transforms can be specified in any order and can repeated as needed
• Multiple actions on a print job means you can broadcast print to many printer models, or print/archive/email all at the same time

Print job archiving

• Keep a maximum number of jobs, or for a maximum time period
• Automated cleanup task checks jobs regularly

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 / recovery

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

Drag and drop files from Windows

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

Drag & drop between queues

• Easily copy jobs from one queue to another
• Optionally move jobs instead of copy, configurable option

Duplicate queues quickly

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

Text printing to any Windows printer

• Text and font rendering like any normal Windows application
• Elite only: text watermark, many image formats supported, transparent print
• Supports non-spacing character sets such as Thai
• Supports bold, underline, overstrike

Raw printing supports native printer formats

• Print your host data plus our optional transforms, such as insert form file
• RPM also generates PCL and PDF, supported by many modern printers

Run a program on your print job

• Specify program, arguments, working directory
• Program can optionally use stdin or stdout
• New: optionally specify maximum idle time, to detect hung programs
• Use job data such as name or title in command processing
• Optionally save stderr to log

Copy jobs to another queue

• Faster than sending back to RPM for further processing
• Avoid duplicating queue configurations, easier to update specifics
• Group related actions or transforms

Automatically Email Print Files

• RPM will automatically email print files received from a host system to multiple locations
• A text or HTML print job can be the body of the message, any other file type can be attached.

PCL to PDF

• Elite only: Convert PCL files to PDF
• Supports PDF password, metadata, templates

Filter transform, run a program on your data midstream

• Elite only: CDo custom conversions prior to printing
• Extract data using a script, hand off to custom filter
• Supports maximum idle time handling, terminate hung processes

Text to PDF output

• Automatically convert host print files to PDF
• PDFs mimic text print jobs, for print archiving
• Print text and save a copy in PDF for easy archiving and retrieval
• Elite only: PDF password, metadata, PDF watermark, supports common image files

Text markup

• Convert plain text to our internal text markup format
• Performs data cleanup, handles overprint, bold, line segments
• Output to PDF, PCL, HTML, text print
• Can specify lines per inch and lines per page, optionally let RPM find good fit for data

Text to PCL output

• PCL output mimics text print jobs allowing RPM to use full printer speed
• Supports duplex, paper tray selections, fonts, bold
• Supports many PCL character sets and commonly used symbols such as §

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 line length, lines per page

Insert & Append Data

• 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

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

Banner Page Support

• RPM supports text banner, which inserts plain text using job data
• RPM also supports PCL banner which can display job data, or provide a blank page pulled from another tray
• Read more about RPM's Banner Page Support

UNIX to DOS (Convert LF to CR/LF)

• Solves the "stair-step" problem
• Normally this is not a factor when using our text markup operations
• Read more about UNIX to DOS Printing

String Translations

• The string translator does search and optional replace in your print job
• Supports regular expressions, not required
• Both text and binary are supported
• Commonlyl used to replace PCL codes or similar customization--our tech staff can assist you with this

ASA Carriage Control

• RPM translates ASA Carriage Control format
• This eliminates the need for the host computer to perform the translation into a more standard format such as PCL or PDF.
• Still used in legacy print environments such as Xerox data spools
• 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

• RPM interprets SCS codes and translates them to our internal text markup
• For non-text printing people commonly remove the text markup, for instance with check printing
• For text output such as PDF creation or text printing, RPM generates a high fidelity result preserving the instructions in the SCS file
• Read more about SCS to ASCII

Use Installed Code Page

• RPM uses installed code pages to translate print jobs into UTF-8, and optionally UTF-8 or UCS-2 into other code pages.
• 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