RPM helps you control your printing environment

RPM Remote Print Manager® offers numerous ways to customize print data. The following features all have real-world uses. Many of these features were added due to customer feedback.

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
• RPM Select has two print tasks, RPM Elite starts at 5, configurable to 256

Fully customizable print job workflow

• Transforms are now broken out,  with full user control
• Transforms can be specified in any order and can repeat as needed
• Multiple actions on a print job mean you can broadcast print to many printer models, or print/archive/email all at the same time

Print job archiving

• Keep a maximum number of jobs, or for a maximum time period
• Automated cleanup task checks jobs regularly

Reprint jobs

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

Email status and alerts

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

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

Drag and drop files from Windows

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

Drag & drop between queues

• Easily copy jobs from one queue to another
• Optionally move jobs instead of copy, configurable option

Duplicate queues quickly

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

Text printing to any Windows printer

• Text and font rendering like any normal Windows application
• Elite only: text watermark, many image formats supported, transparent print
• Supports non-spacing character sets such as Thai
• Supports bold, underline, overstrike

Raw printing supports native printer formats

• Print your host data plus our optional transforms, such as insert form file
• RPM also generates PCL and PDF, supported by many modern printers

Run a program on your print job

• Specify program, arguments, working directory
• The program can optionally use stdin or stdout
• New: optionally specify a maximum idle time, to detect hung programs
• Use job data such as name or title in command processing
• Optionally save stderr to log

Copy jobs to another queue

• Faster than sending it back to RPM for further processing
• Avoid duplicating queue configurations, easier to update specifics
• Group-related actions or transforms

Automatically Email Print Files

• RPM will automatically email print files received from a host system to multiple locations
• A text or HTML print job can be the body of the message, any other file type can be attached.

PCL to PDF

• Elite only: Convert PCL files to PDF
• Supports PDF password, metadata, templates

Filter transform, run a program on your data midstream

• Elite only: Do custom conversions prior to printing
• Extract data using a script, hand it off to a custom filter
• Supports maximum idle time handling, terminate hung processes

Text to PDF output

• Automatically convert print files to PDF
• PDFs mimic text print jobs, for print archiving
• Print text and save a copy in PDF for easy archiving and retrieval
• Elite only: PDF password, metadata, PDF watermark, supports common image files

Text markup

• Convert plain text to our internal text markup format
• Performs data cleanup, and handles overprint, bold, and line segments
• Output to PDF, PCL, HTML, text print
• Can specify lines per inch and lines per page, optionally let RPM find a good fit for data

Text to PCL output

• PCL output mimics text print jobs allowing RPM to use full printer speed
• Supports duplex, paper tray selections, fonts, bold
• Supports many PCL character sets and commonly used symbols such as §

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 an accurate representation of print documents

Unicode support

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

Computer Output Reduction (COR)

• Provides the ability to automatically rotate orientation and scale the line length, lines per page

Insert & Append Data

• 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.

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.

Banner Page Support

• RPM supports text banner, which inserts plain text using job data
• RPM also supports PCL banner which can display job data, or provide a blank page pulled from another tray

UNIX to DOS (Convert LF to CR/LF)

• Solves the “stair-step” problem
• Normally this is not a factor when using our text markup operations

String Translations

• The string translator does search and optionally replace in your print job
• Supports regular expressions, not required
• Both text and binary are supported
• Commonly used to replace PCL codes or similar customization–our tech staff can assist you with this

ASA Carriage Control

• RPM translates ASA Carriage Control format
• This eliminates the need for the host computer to perform the translation into a more standard format such as PCL or PDF.
• Still used in legacy print environments such as Xerox data spools

Convert SCS

• RPM interprets SCS codes and translates them to our internal text markup
• For non-text printing people commonly remove the text markup, for instance with check printing
• For text output such as PDF creation or text printing, RPM generates a high-fidelity result preserving the instructions in the SCS file toASCII

Use Installed Code Page

• RPM uses installed code pages to translate print jobs into UTF-8, and optionally UTF-8 or UCS-2 into other code pages.
• 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).