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Print Manager Spool Managing Print Jobs
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• ’Print Manager Spool Interface’ (for receiving jobs)
• ’Print Manager Spool Cleaner’ (manages the Reprint Queue)
The user interface for this module is implemented as a separate Windows application pro-
gram, "OspAdmin.exe" or PRISMAspool GUI (Graphical User Interface).
PRISMAspool Spool supports local PCL printers (SCSI or Centronics) and communicates
with the printers via Windows device drivers.
It can also address printers that are configured in the local Windows standard spool and
printers connected to other servers in the network.
So you can distribute jobs between several print servers and access all PCL network print-
ers, which are supported by Windows.
It is also possible to address a printer via TCP/IP.
Jobs are controlled and the printer status is queried by means of the Printer Job Language
(PJL).
A job ticket defines the properties of each job. The ticket stores various parameters, such
as the form name, the number of document copies requested, details about the sender and
information for the header page. The ticket is either created by a special Océ Windows
Printer Driver on the basis of information entered by the Windows Print Extension for Win-
dows or on the basis of information entered by the user before printing, generated by the
OSPPRINT.EXE application with some parameters, or via the Input filter module.
System messages may be written to the Windows Event Log Service.
With the integrated Océ PCL Viewer you can view jobs or header and trailer pages.
PRISMAspool spool Server also supports Océ printers with Océ Job Tickets (JEC and
OJT).
Other functionalities of PRISMAspool Spool Server can be grouped into four main parts de-
tailed in next sub paragraphs
5.1.1 Job Control/Editing
• Display of a list of all jobs, together with their current status.
• Handle various data types: supported types are PCL, PCLXL, SEC_PCL, SEC_PS,
PostScript, Text, Text with form feeds included, AFPDS and IPDS but only to forward
them to a AFPDS / IPDS Print Server, PDF, SEC_PDF and RAW for all unknown types.
• Form-controlled job processing: a job's form name determines how it will be handled,
i.e. the PRISMAspool decides on the basis of the form which resources need to be load-
ed, whether the paper has to be changed, or whether a data converter or filter has to
be run, etc.