InfoPrint Manager V4.2 for AIX 5L

Lower cost of ownership. Improved productivity.

Do more with less. Developed to take advantage of the scalability and resilience of the InfoPrint Solutions Company AIX 5L, the InfoPrint^® Manager V4.2 for AIX^® 5L^™ requires fewer resources, giving you the power to leverage existing investments. Maximize staff and operations efficiency in heterogeneous environments with flexibility.

Highlights

• Flexible configuration options to enable intelligent document routing and scheduling.
• Manages and delivers output for printers, fax solutions, e-mail and electronic presentations.
• Receives jobs from a very broad range of inputs and shares printers between host systems, SAP installations and workstation applications, for increased output flexibility.
• Integrates with InfoPrint Transform Manager for Linux^® technology to help increase the scalability and efficiency of your operations.
• Optional Print on Demand feature with a browser-based job ticketing client, line Conditioned Data Stream/meta driver for driving LCDS and metacode printers
• Upgrade to InfoPrint XT^™ for AIX 5L for converting Xerox data streams to InfoPrint AFP^™ systems for printing.

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InfoPrint Manager V4.2 for AIX 5L

Lower cost of ownership. Improved productivity.

Feature	Benefits
Centralized management	Simplify operations and lower total cost of ownership by managing and monitoring output systems through a GUI that allows operators to more easily view, set up or change the characteristics or defaults of both printers and jobs remotely from any point on the network. Users can start, stop, delete or move print jobs, or start, stop, back-space, forward-space or shut down printers.
User and operator notification	Improves productivity by delivering information about events occurring with print jobs or printers to users via e-mail, on-screen notifications or wireless devices. Customize the notification profiles for your jobs and printers so the appropriate people get the message and can respond quickly.
Intelligent document routing and scheduling	Increases the efficiency of operations by matching each print job to the right printer to help maximize productivity and reduce the cost of reprints. Jobs can be scheduled to destinations based on their size, resolution, printer model or media type. Jobs can be queued automatically to destinations that support their requirements, such as duplexing or other document formats.
Flexible configuration options	Leverage existing investments by setting up your print infrastructure to balance workloads across multiple printers. Streamlining overall printing and reducing job interruptions can improve the utilization rates of your printers—helping to lower your total cost of ownership. InfoPrint® Manager’s configuration options allow you to: Cluster printers Easily reroute jobs while replacing supplies or performing preventive maintenance Hold jobs that fail and automatically disable printers with problems Transform data and print concurrently Save processed files for efficient reprinting or for printing multiple copies Retry jobs automatically upon network failures Support multiple input and output datastreams Send and receive faxes Receive jobs from multiple locations and send them to a variety of locations and/or devices.
Varied job submission methods	Increase flexibility and scalability through the ability to receive jobs from multiple sources, including the Microsoft® Windows® desktop and mainframe systems via Download for InfoPrint Solutions Company OS/390® and InfoPrint Solutions Company IP PrintWay™ technology. Share printers between host and workstation applications to maximize productivity and leverage existing investments. Associate your existing fax solution with InfoPrint Manager and be able to send faxes using familiar job submission methods.
Datastream Transforms support	Manage output at the enterprise level to optimize efficiency without changing existing applications, datastreams or print commands. InfoPrint Manager includes datastream transforms that allow you to accept jobs from different applications and route them to the appropriate print devices, including InfoPrint Solutions Company and non-InfoPrint Solutions Company printers. The SAP print feature allows you to extend output management in an enterprise resource planning (ERP) environment by submitting SAP ABAP and OTF data to be transformed to InfoPrint Solutions Company AFP™ format and printed. And, with InfoPrint XT™ for AIX 5L™ technology, you can even submit Linux® Community Development System (LCDS) and metacode data to be converted to AFP format for printing.
Print on Demand support	Build and submit job tickets through an installed application or through the InfoPrint Job Ticketer Web application. With support for document impositioning, users can accept scanned hard-copy documents, then assemble and submit jobs for just-in-time printing.

InfoPrint Manager V4.2 for AIX 5L

Lower cost of ownership. Improved productivity.

Although printing to paper remains a key form of business communication, the On Demand Business environment requires new capabilities that can reduce the need to output to paper—yet still require detailed management of the output process. Centralized management of output can provide an increased level of insight and control that can lead to cost savings and improvements in productivity. Centralized management can also enable the business to respond market conditions quickly, decisively and dynamically.

InfoPrint^® Manager V4.2 for AIX 5L^™ software can help to centralize your output infrastructure to lower overall costs and create maximum efficiency. It combines a powerful InfoPrint Solutions Company Advanced Function Printing^™ (InfoPrint Solutions Company AFP^™) architecture, comprehensive datastream transforms and extensive output management capabilities into a single solution to provide the control required to address changing business demands. Diverse types of information—from a variety of sources—can be enhanced, printed, stored, retrieved, presented on the Web or e-mailed.

Improve resource management and productivity

Drive print and output in a variety of environments

InfoPrint Manager V4.2 for AIX 5L software gives you the flexibility to support the diverse print and output needs of your enterprise. You can receive jobs directly from workstations, from multiple sites—using InfoPrint Select or the InfoPrint Solutions Company IP PrintWay^™ Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) gateway—and from mainframe systems via Download for z/OS^® technology.

 

InfoPrint Manager V4.2 for AIX 5L software also allows you to consolidate print and fax management in one application. With the generalized fax function, InfoPrint Manager can send fax jobs to existing fax solutions that accept job tickets or solutions that use a command line interface, and can receive faxes to be printed.

Meeting production printing demands

InfoPrint Manager V4.2 for AIX 5L software can be customized to help you better manage and control high-volume printing. With reliable queue and job management and workflow automation to protect data integrity, InfoPrint Manager can help ensure that your documents print accurately the first time.

Managing output across the enterprise

The scalable, server-based print management capabilities of InfoPrint Manager V4.2 for AIX 5L software can help reduce overall printing costs in the distributed environment by automating vital functions, simplifying user operation and facilitating electronic storage and reprinting. InfoPrint Manager can help you save time and money with automated scheduling and tracking, and it integrates easily with SAP to provide output management in an ERP environment.

Providing flexibility in the print on demand environment

With the help of InfoPrint Manager's comprehensive digital system, commercial and in-plant print shops can consistently create single-copy, dynamic, variable-data documents, on time and on budget. With the Job Ticketer, users can create and submit job tickets from PCs across the company using a Web browser.

Route and schedule documents intelligently

InfoPrint Manager V4.2 for AIX 5L software can intelligently match each print job with the right printer, to help maximize productivity and reduce the need for costly reprints. Jobs can be matched to destinations based on size, resolution, printer model or media type. They can be queued automatically to destinations that support their requirements, such as duplexing or other document formats.

Manage and monitor from anywhere in your enterprise

The InfoPrint Manager GUIs allow centralized management of printers and jobs through an easy-to-use interface. With these graphical user interfaces (GUIs), you can remotely view, set or change the characteristics of printers and jobs, and start or stop printers as needed. You can also: Monitor the status of any job or printer; delete or move any print job; and forward-space, back-space or shut down printers—all from any workstation in your network that has the InfoPrint Manager GUI installed.

 

InfoPrint Notifications allow InfoPrint Manager to send timely messages about print jobs, printers or other elements of your InfoPrint system. You can receive the messages via wireless devices or e-mail, or have them pop up on a PC monitor.

Leveraging existing investments

Datastream transforms included in InfoPrint Manager allow InfoPrint Manager to accept jobs from a wide variety of applications and convert them to a datastream that is appropriate for your printer. With InfoPrint Manager, you can efficiently leverage new print capabilities without changing your existing applications, datastreams or print commands—and do so from any point on the network.

Job Ticketer accepts the JDF job tickets created by existing applications, and converts them into InfoPrint Manager job tickets for submission.

In addition, optional features of InfoPrint Manager V4.2 for AIX 5L allow it to accept and manage LCDS and metacode data from your existing applications. InfoPrint XT^™ for AIX 5L works with InfoPrint Manager to convert LCDS and metacode data to Intelligent Printer Data Stream™ (IPDS™); to be sent to IPDS printers. The LCDS/meta driver for AIX 5L allows InfoPrint Manager to accept LCDS and metacode data and submit it to Xerox EPS printers—so you can use InfoPrint Manager to drive those printers directly.

Additional offerings

Customizing a solution with comprehensive offerings

To help you better manage output across your enterprise, InfoPrint Solutions Company provides a range of offerings that complement the capabilities of InfoPrint Manager V4.2 for AIX 5L.

• InfoPrint Transform Manager for Linux^® can help improve the performance on your InfoPrint Manager system if your print environment requires high volumes of datastream transformation. InfoPrint Transform Manager integrates seamlessly with InfoPrint Manager to send datastreams that need to be transformed to a separate system, leaving your InfoPrint Manager server to focus on job submission and management.
• InfoPrint Viewer provides on-screen proofing for print-on-demand jobs to speed the production process.
• Professional Services offerings include InfoPrint Workflow, to help you achieve better process control and reduce costs, and a range of solutions for enhanced job ticketing, document storage and retrieval and Web-based job submission and access.

Together with unmatched InfoPrint Solutions Company service and support, InfoPrint Manager V4.2 for AIX 5L software brings centralized management to print operations, resulting in lower total cost of ownership and resource utilization improvements that increase productivity.

InfoPrint Manager V4.2 for AIX 5L

Lower cost of ownership. Improved productivity.

InfoPrint^® Manager V4.2 for AIX 5L^™ software, announced and released in September 2005, provides new functionality to increase your operational flexibility and productivity^™ making the software more valuable to your ever-changing business. With the technology’s improved integration with other parts of the business, you can simplify operations, improve resource management and improve the productivity of your print environment.

Some of these new enhancements are:

• InfoPrint Solutions Company Print Services Facility for i5/OS^™ (PSF) Input Record Enhancements: Integration with other parts of your business is essential for a more complete solution. With the PSF enhancements, you can access data dynamically and modify it according to the business requirements. You can gain more flexibility for record management, as well as improved security for data management.
• Channel out support for LCDS/metacode devices: Channel out support can help enhance and streamline operations within your production environment while reducing disruption. With the InfoPrint Manager Line Conditioned Data Stream/metacode driver, you can configure and support channel out devices (InfoPrint Solutions Company S/370^™)—a capability that helps to increase flexibility and control by allowing you to run legacy and current applications under one system.
• PIMSG : Development and testing of an output application before it gets to production can be time consuming and error prone. InfoPrint Manager, with the enhancement of PIMSG, can help you easily switch applications from test environment into production with little configuration. As a result, you can increase the productivity of the development process and lower costs.

Functional enhancements for Release 2

Print-on-Demand feature improvements

• InfoPrint Job Ticketer : A browser-based job ticketing interface. InfoPrint Job Ticketer is a Web application that can be accessed through a Web browser from both Microsoft^® Windows^® and Macintosh systems. Using Job Ticketer, you can build job tickets, store them, and submit jobs to your InfoPrint Manager destinations. Job Ticketer can accept both job description file (JDF) and InfoPrint Submit job tickets and convert them for submission. Job Ticketer also includes a page placement facility that allows you to decide where each page should be positioned on the paper when you’re printing to a printer that supports enhanced n-up.
• InfoPrint Submit Express:The functionality of InfoPrint Submit for Windows and InfoPrint Submit for Macintosh has been consolidated into one interface: InfoPrint Submit Express. A Java^™ technology-based application, InfoPrint Submit Express replaces InfoPrint Submit on both platforms, providing virtually the same list of features.
• PPML to AFP transform: The Personalized Print Markup Language (PPML) to InfoPrint Solutions Company AFP™ transform has been enhanced to support IOCA FS10 as an output format. Performance enhancements have also been added to reduce transform time.
• Halftone Management System:The Halftone Management System has been moved to the Print on Demand feature for the InfoPrint Manager V4.2 for AIX 5L offering. The system is used to calibrate printers so they can print high-quality grayscale images.

Support for InfoPrint Transform Manager for Linux

InfoPrint Transform Manager for Linux^® technology can be set up to work with InfoPrint Manager. Environments that rely heavily on datastream transforms can stress their print servers and experience slower system performance. Transform Manager can integrate seamlessly with InfoPrint Manager to process datastream transforms on a separate system, leaving your InfoPrint Manager server to focus on job submission and management.

Datastream transforms and file format support

• Ability to convert XML to AFP and PDF formats: InfoPrint Manager can now accept XML files with an accompanying XSL style sheet to be converted to AFP or PDF formats for printing. It can also accept and transform XML-FO files, which contain both the XML and XSL information.
• Support for PDF 1.5
• Continued improvements in Unicode support, with full support of UTF-16

Improved error recovery

Since print problems occasionally occur, InfoPrint Manager has added functionality designed to improve productivity and reduce production downtime. InfoPrint Manager can now print message pages at the point of error, if that error has the potential to cause data loss. By printing messages on the actual media, operators can find them easily and make the necessary corrections.

Korean language support

InfoPrint Manager has been translated into Korean.