Selecting a DFE DSS
The integration of a DFE equipped with a print server with the InfoPrint Manager DSS offers enhanced document processing, as well as management and printing capabilities.
InfoPrint Manager authenticates with the DFE server that drives the printer using the credentials provided with the dfe-user and dfe-password attributes.
You can configure DFE DSS to transform certain document formats using InfoPrint Manager, while allowing all others to be transformed by the DFE print server. DFE DSS processes incoming data streams by transforming them first to AFP and then to PDF before printing, except for the formats that are assigned to the document-formats-ripped-at-destination attribute. By default, these formats are: ASCII, PDF, PostScript, PCL, and TIFF.
- Note:
- If DFE DSS transforms the incoming data stream, device commands (such as beginning
or ending duplexing or changing the input bin) will be ignored, conversion algorithms
might cause degraded appearance, and print fidelity could be lost. You can specify
the following printer options using InfoPrint Manager attributes: media size, input tray, output bin, simplex/duplex printing, color/black-and-white
printing, banner pages, and finishing options. For specific details, see the
Limitations
topics for the InfoPrint Manager transform commands in theInfoPrint Manager transform commands
section of RICOH InfoPrint Manager: Reference.
To configure a DFE DSS printer not to transform certain input data formats, use the InfoPrint Manager Administration GUI. After you create the DFE printer with the Create Printer Wizard, go into the Printer Properties notebook for the printer and modify the Formats to RIP at destination field to configure your actual destination for passthru jobs. The Formats to RIP at destination field can be found on the Document tab of the Printer Properties notebook when all the available properties are displayed. It might be necessary to click Show More to display all the printer properties.
- Note:
- To ensure that jobs are not transformed, avoid specifying particular InfoPrint Manager attributes.
The DFE DSS also supports accurate job completion and job accounting (including the number of pages printed in color mode) which you can control using the wait-for-job-completion destination attribute.