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ExcelliPrint Installation and Setup

Install ExcelliPrint®

  1. Log on to Windows as an administrator and run the setup program downloaded from our website.
  2. Read the license agreement; to continue, accept it.
  3. Choose the installation folder, or keep the default (C:\Program Files\Brooks Internet Software\XCP).
  4. Setup installs the program, registers and starts the ExcelliPrint service, starts the trial license and adds a Windows Firewall rule for the queues. When it finishes, you can open ExcelliPrint straight away.

Setup adds ExcelliPrint, the ExcelliPrint Manual and the Brooks License Manager to the Start menu. See the minimum requirements first.

Quick Start

These steps take you from a new installation to a first job saved as PDF.

  1. Open ExcelliPrint from the Start menu.
  2. Create a queue. Choose Queue > Create. The new queue is given the first free port from 5001 up and code page 1140 (IBM US/Canada with the euro). Enter a Queue Name, such as Archive, and in Accept jobs from the IP address of the host that will print to it.
  3. Choose the output. Set Type to Folder and click Setup. Choose the folder for the files under Location, set Format to PDF, and click OK. Click OK again to save the queue. It starts listening at once.
  4. Point a host printer at the queue: the ExcelliPrint computer’s IP address and the queue’s port. On IBM i, see Setting up IBM i; for z/OS, see printing from my host.
  5. Print a spooled file to that printer. The job appears in the Jobs tab and its PDF in the folder. Select the job and choose Job > Open Output to view it.

Each queue is one IPDS printer to your host. Create one for each kind of output you want: for example, one that archives invoices as PDF/A, one that prints reports on a departmental printer, and one that emails statements. See queue settings.

Firewall

Each queue listens on its own TCP port, by default 5001, 5002 and so on. Setup adds an inbound Windows Defender Firewall rule, ExcelliPrint queues, that allows connections to the queues whatever their ports. With another firewall, allow listener.exe in the installation folder, or each queue’s port. See what ports ExcelliPrint uses.

Licensing

ExcelliPrint starts on a trial license; every feature works during the trial, and every page of output is marked “ExcelliPrint Trial”. Your license sets how many IPDS printers (queues) can receive jobs at once. To enter a license, choose Help > License in ExcelliPrint and follow the steps there; the service picks it up without a restart.

Upgrading from ExcelliPrint 4.0

Version 5.0 is a new program and doesn’t read 4.0’s configuration, so set up your queues again. Note each 4.0 printer’s port, emulation, code page, paper sizes, destination and format first. Some 4.0 features aren’t in 5.0: the web interface and its login accounts, iSeries device and spooled-file management, the JPEG, GIF, PNG, text and PCL5 formats (for a PCL printer, use PCL6 or Windows Driver), and margins and watermarks.

4.0 and 5.0 can be installed on the same computer, but not listening on the same ports. Stop the 4.0 service (ExcelliPrint IPDS Solution), or give the 5.0 queues other ports, before you point a host at 5.0.

Upgrading from an earlier 5.x version keeps your queues, jobs, stored users and settings: run the new setup program over the installed version.

Continue to: Queue settings →