Printers

The type of printer that you create in TotalFlow Production Manager to represent a printer device depends on the capabilities of the printer device:

Job Ticket printer

Job Ticket printers are associated with printer devices that support job tickets. You can specify job options by editing the job tickets for jobs assigned to Job Ticket printers.

TotalFlow Production Manager workflows that are associated with Job Ticket printers can receive jobs from these programs:

• RICOH TotalFlow Production Manager Job Submission
• RICOH TotalFlow Prep
• RICOH TotalFlow PM PDF Print Driver
• External online applications such as MarcomCentral Web-to-print system.

They can also receive jobs in a hot folder or from a print command that uses the line printer daemon (LPD) protocol. Job Ticket printers can communicate directly with printer devices and obtain status on the jobs while they are printing.

Passthrough printer

Passthrough printers are associated with printer devices that can print jobs in many different formats, for example, PCL, PostScript, and PDF. Jobs assigned to passthrough printers do not have job tickets. TotalFlow Production Manager workflows that are associated with Passthrough printers can receive these jobs in a hot folder or from a print command that uses the LPD protocol. Passthrough printers cannot report job status.

Passthrough printers can receive jobs from RICOH TotalFlow Production Manager Job Submission.