RPM's Technical Specifications

Print Features

• Prints to a Windows printer that is locally attached to your PC or connected to your PC over a local network. If Windows can print to it, RPM can print to it.
• Uses the standard Windows Print Setup dialog, and supports all the options provided by the printer driver, such as portrait vs. landscape orientation.
• Detects physical page size and orientation supported by your printer, and adjusts the margin settings automatically.
• Provides access to all fonts supported by your printer.
• Supports maximum columns per line and maximum lines per page.
• Can wrap lines, or truncate them.
• Can reduce font automatically to fit a given line width.
• Can interrupt a print job in progress in order to print later, restart on a different page, or cancel the job.
• Optionally converts line-feeds to carriage-return/line-feed to better accommodate DOS printers and applications.
• Specify lines per inch, and RPM will automatically reduce the font size, if necessary.
• RPM can modify your print data by removing bytes from the beginning, and by inserting or appending a file (or custom byte sequence) to the data.
• If RPM fails to print a job, RPM holds the print job for later printing.
• Print jobs can optionally be held, and will print when manually released.

Processing Features

• RPM text printing also supports overprinting (Bold).
• Handles multiple data files in a single print job.
• Provides the following types of queues for processing your print requests:
• Text queues to enhance your documents
• Pass-through queues to pass data directly to the printer (with optional data manipulation)
• Filter queues to run a local program on your document or archive print jobs to PC disk
• Can translate one character to another character.
• Can remove all PCL/PJL escape sequence.

Compatibility

• Tested with a variety of operating systems including mainframes, UNIX workstations, and AS/400 midrange systems.
• LPD protocol: lpr, lprm, lpq, lp, and lpstat commands.
• Supports reverse telnet (also known as "streams").
• WinSock Software: tested with all major brands.