| Centralized management | Simplify operations and lower total cost of ownership by managing and monitoring output systems through a web-based GUI that allows operators to easily view and manage printers, queues and jobs remotely from a browser anywhere in the network. The web view can be customized for each operator’s preferences. Users can start, stop, delete or move print jobs, or start, stop, back-space, forward-space or shut down printers. |
| User and operator notification | Improve 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 | Increase 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 data streams
- Send and receive faxes
- ·Send documents electronically
- Receive jobs from multiple locations and send them to a variety of locations and/or devices.
- Archive and reprint documents
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| Varied job submission methods | Increase flexibility and scalability through the ability to receive jobs from multiple sources, including the Microsoft® Windows® desktop, Linux and UNIX servers and mainframe systems via the Download or Download Plus features of PSF for IBM z/OS®. Share printers between host and workstation applications to maximize productivity and leverage existing investments. Associate your existing fax solution with InfoPrint Manager and 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 Ricoh printers and other vendors’ 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 AFP™ format and printed. Optional transforms let you convert legacy Xerox LPS/Metacode data into AFP, or convert AFP into PDF, which can be sent as email, stored in an archive or presented on the web. |
| Optional Pull Print/Follow Me Print | Increase paper savings, security and flexibility: - Pull Print causes authenticated jobs sent to InfoPrint Manager to be held in the print server until users request them to be released by re-authentication at the printer. Since these jobs are printed while users wait at the printer, they can be configured to print without banner pages to save paper. Uncollected jobs are deleted after a configurable retention period. Jobs are recorded for accurate chargeback purposes.
- Follow Me Print allows users to submit jobs without specifying a target printer. When users are ready to collect a job, they authenticate at a printer configured for this type of printing, no matter where it is located, and the job is released for printing.
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| Web-based GUI | Simplify use and increase control with rich data visualization for managing and interpreting data on the screen: - Display multiple pods, or frames of information, move them around and size them.
- Select certain columns of data to display and sort and filter them as needed.
- Define personal settings, which you can save.
- Search queues, destinations and jobs on multiple InfoPrint Manager servers.
The web-based GUI enhances Java-based GUI functionality by providing access from any supported browser. |
| Centralized point of recovery | Reduce the number of calls placed to the help desk for lost, missing or never-delivered documents. Centralized control makes it easy for the help desk staff to resolve problems faster. |
| Compatibility with managed print services (MSP) | Extend the benefits of MSP to enterprise application printing. When InfoPrint Manager is part of your output strategy, it can be used by the MSP team to: - Consolidate office print servers
- Increase availability of the office print management solution
- Improve productivity with automated processing, formatting and routing
- Use one job management tool for all output devices
- Eliminate dedicated output devices that support legacy applications or unique datastreams
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| High availability | Near 100 percent system availability is possible with the IBM® PowerHA® for AIX configuration that includes automated fail-over capabilities. |
| Virtualized configurations | InfoPrint Manager supports virtualized configurations, enabling a single virtualized environment to replace numerous physical servers and their management overhead. InfoPrint Manager is VMware®-certified (Windows®), and it supports IBM PowerVM® (AIX) and Microsoft® Hyper-V® (Windows). |
