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ExcelliPrint: IPDS Printing Software Solution

To your IBM system, ExcelliPrint® 5.0 is an IPDS printer

ExcelliPrint IPDS printer

ExcelliPrint IPDS printer

ExcelliPrint runs on a Windows computer and takes the place of an IPDS printer. IBM i (AS/400) and z/OS systems send it print jobs over TCP/IP exactly as they would to an IBM printer, and ExcelliPrint turns each job into a file or a printout. To the host it is an IBM 4028, 3812 or 3816: it answers the host’s questions about paper, trays and fonts, takes part in the host’s error recovery, and reports each page as printed, so the print writer and spooled-file handling work as they do with a real printer.

IPDS flows from IBM i (AS/400) or IBM Z mainframe over TCP/IP to ExcelliPrint on Windows, which receives, processes and routes output to Windows printers and PCL, PDF, TIFF and PostScript files, plus print, save-to-folder and email
ExcelliPrint sits between your IBM host and your output.

What it does with your jobs

  • Save searchable PDF, or PDF/A-2b for archives, with optional passwords
  • Save TIFF in color, grayscale or black and white, PostScript or PCL6
  • Print on any Windows printer through its own driver, following the host’s trays, output bins, duplex and copies
  • Send PostScript, PCL6 or PDF straight to a printer that understands it
  • Email each job as an attachment
  • Name files, print jobs and attachments from the job’s details: job name, user, spooled file, form and more

Text, fonts, images, graphics, bar codes, overlays and page segments are drawn by one engine, so a job looks the same in every format.

One product, priced by printer

ExcelliPrint 5.0 is one product. Each queue you set up is an IPDS printer to your host, with its own port, emulation and output; your license sets how many can receive jobs at once. Additional printers cost less than the base license.

ExcelliPrint 5.0

Version 5.0 is a new program, rebuilt from the ground up:

  • More secure. No web server or administration port; each queue accepts jobs only from the hosts you list; only Windows administrators change settings; stored passwords are protected by Windows. More about security.
  • More robust. Every job ends completed or failed, never half-delivered, with the reason in the log; a queue that stops is restarted while the others carry on.
  • Our best rendering yet. One engine draws every format, with real searchable text, PDF/A, font mapping and the host’s trays, bins and duplex followed on any printer.

Queues, jobs and the log are in one window. Here is what’s new, and how it compares with 4.0. Download it and try it free: every feature works during the trial.

Getting started

Learning more about ExcelliPrint

Articles about ExcelliPrint

IT Jungle • IBM Systems Magazine

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