Configuration

In this section:

1. Creating Printers
   Printers represent the printer devices in your environment that receive jobs from TotalFlow Production Manager. You can create printers to represent printer devices at up to fifteen IP addresses. Because more than one printer can represent the same printer device, you can create more than fifteen printers.
2. Creating workflows
   Workflows are the TotalFlow Production Manager objects through which TotalFlow Production Manager receives jobs.
3. Creating Printer Pools
   Printer pools are groups of printers that work together for maximum efficiency. When you send a job to a printer pool, TotalFlow Production Manager assigns it to the printer that can print it fastest.
4. Creating Connections
   You can use a portal to create jobs in an online print shop and assign them to a printer through a TotalFlow Production Manager connection.
5. Preparing for Job Submission
   You can submit jobs to TotalFlow Production Manager using TotalFlow Prep or TotalFlow Production Manager Job Submission. You can also use such methods as Quick Submission, external connections, hot folders or LPD. No matter which submission method you use, you must create a workflow to receive the input files.
6. Creating Papers
   Papers represent the paper, envelopes, forms, labels, or transparencies that jobs are printed on. TotalFlow Production Manager assigns each job to a printer that uses the papers that the job requires.
7. Copying Objects from One System to Another
   To duplicate objects from one TotalFlow Production Manager system to another, you can export them from the original system and import them into the new system rather than recreating them manually. Administrators can export and import the server, printers, printer pools, papers, users, reports, workflows, activities, and notifications. You cannot export or import jobs.
8. Setting Server Properties
   Server properties apply to the overall TotalFlow Production Manager environment. Some of the properties apply to all the jobs that TotalFlow Production Manager creates. Others apply to all users. Only administrators can set server properties.
9. Creating Notifications
   Operators and administrators can set up TotalFlow Production Manager to send email notifications of events that happen to printers, workflows, and jobs.
10. Changing the Log Schedule
    By default, old log information is moved to audit files and old audit files are deleted every day between midnight and 2:59 AM. You can change this time.
11. Configuring Client Computers
    Do the tasks in this section on every computer that accesses TotalFlow Production Manager.