InfoPrint Manager for Windows Supported DSSs

InfoPrint Manager for Windows supports these DSSs:

PSF DSS
The PSF DSS lets InfoPrint Manager use the Print Services Facility (PSF) printing subsystem. You can use the PSF DSS to submit print jobs to output devices that accept the Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS) or the PCL data stream. The PSF DSS accepts print jobs in various data streams and transforms them into IPDS or PCL before sending them to the output device. The PSF DSS is the most flexible DSS. It provides a single point of control and tracking for print jobs.

The way InfoPrint Manager communicates with the output device depends on the type of actual destination. For PSF DSS actual destinations, it also depends on the attachment type. (See Understanding attachment types for PSF actual destinations.)

Passthrough DSS
The Passthrough DSS lets InfoPrint Manager for Windows use the Windows print-spooling subsystem. This DSS supports non-IPDS (such as PostScript or PCL) printers using standard Windows ports and port monitors.

Before you create an InfoPrint Manager Passthrough printer (also known as a Passthrough actual destination), you must do these tasks:

  • Attach the printer device as specified by its documentation
  • Use the InfoPrint Manager Management Console to create a Windows port to communicate with the printer device (see Passthrough printer for details)
  • Install the Windows Generic/Text Only Driver from the Windows DVD

IPP DSS
InfoPrint Manager uses the IPP DSS to communicate with printers that are Internet Print Protocol (IPP) enabled. This DSS allows InfoPrint Manager to access a printer by a Uniform Resource Indicator (URI) string.
Note: InfoPrint Manager does not support SSL/TLS encryption using the IPP DSS.
BSD DSS
The BSD DSS lets InfoPrint Manager use remote printers or printing subsystems. InfoPrint Manager sends jobs submitted to BSD physical printers as separate print requests to a remote print queue.

InfoPrint Manager typically uses the lpr command to send jobs to a printer device or to another system. The target can be any device or system that supports the lpd protocol and that connects to the network with TCP/IP.

See the printer configuration documentation of the remote device or system for details on how to set up a remote queue.

Email DSS
InfoPrint Manager uses the email DSS to send jobs as emails to electronic mailing systems. Only one email DSS is supported per InfoPrint Manager server instance.
Anyplace DSS
InfoPrint Manager uses the Anyplace DSS to securely pull print jobs from a printer. When requested at the printer console, the print job is processed by an Anyplace DSS before being handed off to Streamline NX. You must configure the actual destination on the processing logical destinations to gain control over the job flow. The Anyplace DSS print jobs take their attributes from the Anyplace logical destination and not from the processing logical destination. All Anyplace actual destinations have the same configuration, especially for attributes which are reflected in the datastream.
InfoPrint Manager transforms jobs submitted to Anyplace destinations to PCL before sending them to the Streamline NX.
With the Anyplace DSS, you can submit jobs to an InfoPrint Manager logical destination assigned to an Anyplace queue that would print the jobs to an Anyplace actual destination.
DFE DSS
The DFE DSS lets InfoPrint Manager send jobs to Ricoh color engines through a DFE (Digital FrontEnd) print server, using its added performance and advanced workflow tools.

Parent topic: Understanding Destination Support Systems (DSS)