RPM Remote Print Manager Select 5.0.70.1

RPM Remote Print Manager Select 5.0.70.1 offers you a versatile and very useful product. RPM Remote Print Manager is an LPD Print Server that gives you the tools to completely customize your Host and Mainframe print files. RPM will take the print job, perform various transforms, and then send the print job where you need it to go; printer (network or local), email (single person or multiple recipients), print to file (archive print job), and more.

The RPM Print Server receives files from a Host System (AS400, iSeries/zSeries, UNIX, Windows, or any host) via TCPIP protocol. Once received, RPM performs the user?s pre-defined transforms. Once the transforms have completed, RPM can email the print file, save to disk, print raw, and much more.

The new RPM Print Server software includes native print file to PDF. Now you can send your mainframe print file directly to your Windows system and automatically create a PDF, then archive it within a folder or email it to one or many recipients.

RPM expands printing capabilities by giving users more control, formatting options, and file management advantages over traditional network server printing. RPM allows users to customize and control processing of print jobs received on a TCP/IP network from hosts such as mainframes, AS/400s, UNIX and Linux, and other Windows platforms.

RPM fully supports SCS formatting instructions. RPM has easy Print to File (write to disk) options. RPM offers many TCP/IP Printing features not normally found with Host over IP printing situations.

Major Features:

1. Automatically Email Print Files

• RPM will automatically email print files received from a host system to one or multiple locations

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

• Easily copy jobs from one queue to another

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

• Automatically convert host print files to PDF
• PDFs mimic text print jobs, for print archiving
• PDFs support Asian languages, and right to left printing
• Print text and save a copy in PDF for easy archiving and retrieval

• Small jobs don't have to wait in line behind large jobs
• Drive more than one printer at a time
• Increased throughput

• Transforms are now broken out, full user control
• Transforms can be specified in any order and can repeat as needed

• PCL output mimics text print jobs allowing RPM to use full printer speed
• Supports many PCL commands such as duplexing and paper tray selections

• 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
  

• Read and write UTF-8, UCS-2, ISO code pages, EBCDIC, and many others
• More support for multi-byte character sets

11. Computer Output Reduction (COR)

• Provides the ability to automatically rotate orientation and scale the font size
  
• Print job archiving
• Keep a maximum number of jobs, or for a maximum time period
  

12. Reprint jobs

• Any archived job can be reprinted or copied to another queue
  

13. Email status and alerts

• Optional email status to user when job prints
• Optional email alert or SMS message on printer error / recover
  

14. 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
  

15. Insert & Append Bytes

• 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
  

16. Banner Page Support

• RPM asks whether a banner page should be inserted into the data before printing.
• The drop list offers three choices: suppress banner, always print, and when requested.
• Read more about RPM's Banner Page Support
  

  17. UNIX to DOS (Convert LF to CR/LF)

• One of our more frequent requests is to solve the "stair-step" problem.
• This often happens when a UNIX file is sent to a DOS printer.
• Read more about UNIX to DOS Printing
  

18. String Translations

• RPM supports custom character translations.
• The user can create named translation tables that specify one-to-one single byte translations, that is, any character to any other character.
• Read more about String Translations
  

19. ASA Carriage Control

• RPM translates ASA Carriage Control format and prints the results.
• This eliminates the need for the host computer to perform the translation into a more standard format such as PCL or PDF.
• Read more about ASA carriage control
  

20. 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
  

21. Convert SCS to ASCII

• RPM can interpret SCS codes and translate them to ASCII.
• For non-text printing RPM creates line-oriented output using carriage return for overstrikes as appropriate.
• For text output RPM preserves the SCS markup and reproduces attributes such as margins, font size, character position, etc.
• Read more about SCS to ASCII
  

22. Use Installed Code Page

• RPM is able to use installed code pages to translate print jobs into a form that Windows can print.
• 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
  

23. 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
  

24.  Automatically Email Print Files

• RPM will automatically email print files received from a host system to one or multiple locations
  

25. Drag and drop files from Windows

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

26. Drag & drop between queues

• Easily copy jobs from one queue to another
  

27. Duplicate queues quickly

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

28. Text to PDF output

• Automatically convert host print files to PDF
• PDFs mimic text print jobs, for print archiving
• PDFs support Asian languages, and right to left printing
• Print text and save a copy in PDF for easy archiving and retrieval
  

29. 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
  

30. Fully customizable print job workflow

• Transforms are now broken out, full user control
• Transforms can be specified in any order and can repeat as needed
  

31. Text to PCL output

• PCL output mimics text print jobs allowing RPM to use full printer speed
• Supports many PCL commands such as duplexing and paper tray selections
  

32. 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
  

33. Unicode support

• Read and write UTF-8, UCS-2, ISO code pages, EBCDIC, and many others
• More support for multi-byte character sets
  

34. Computer Output Reduction (COR)

• Provides the ability to automatically rotate orientation and scale the font size
  

35. Print job archiving

• Keep a maximum number of jobs, or for a maximum time period
  

36. Reprint jobs

• Any archived job can be reprinted or copied to another queue
  

37. Email status and alerts

• Optional email status to user when job prints
• Optional email alert or SMS message on printer error / recover
  

38. 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
  

39. Insert & Append Bytes

• 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
  

40. Banner Page Support

• RPM asks whether a banner page should be inserted into the data before printing.
• The drop list offers three choices: suppress banner, always print, and when requested.
• Read more about RPM's Banner Page Support
  

41. UNIX to DOS (Convert LF to CR/LF)

• One of our more frequent requests is to solve the "stair-step" problem.
• This often happens when a UNIX file is sent to a DOS printer.
• Read more about UNIX to DOS Printing
  

42. String Translations

• RPM supports custom character translations.
• The user can create named translation tables that specify one-to-one single byte translations, that is, any character to any other character.
• Read more about String Translations
  

43. ASA Carriage Control

• RPM translates ASA Carriage Control format and prints the results.
• This eliminates the need for the host computer to perform the translation into a more standard format such as PCL or PDF.
• Read more about ASA carriage control
  

44. 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
  

  45. Convert SCS to ASCII

• RPM can interpret SCS codes and translate them to ASCII.
• For non-text printing RPM creates line-oriented output using carriage return for overstrikes as appropriate.
• For text output RPM preserves the SCS markup and reproduces attributes such as margins, font size, character position, etc.
• Read more about SCS to ASCII
  

46. Use Installed Code Page

• RPM is able to use installed code pages to translate print jobs into a form that Windows can print.
• 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
  

47. 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

Enhancements:

• Queue deletion for transforms has been corrected