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PrintOS
- Manage and Distribute your Drawings, Images, Documents and Plot Files with
PrintOS
- Production Printing Module for Color and Monochrome
- Easy Setup and Implementation Means Quick ROI
- No Client Software or Plug-Ins to Install
- Supports Monochrome and Color Production Printing
- Easy Access to Network File Folders
- Use on Any Platform
- Supports Native CAD, Office and Imaging File Formats
- Save Shipping Costs by Delivering Document Sets in PDF, DWF, CGM, or TIFF
via email.
Manage and Distribute your Drawings, Images, Documents and Plot Files with
PrintOS
PrintOS provides easy web-browser access to all your project plans,
specifications, and legal documents from any computer in your company. With
PrintOS, you can quickly and easily preview for print distribution.
Production Printing Module for Color and Monochrome
PrintOS has direct support for your printing systems, including Oce, KIP, Xerox,
PLP, Repro Desk, Ricoh, Kyocera-Mita, HP, Kodak’s Encad and others. Do you
have additional printers? A PrintOS queue running at each printer prevents
sending jobs from one location to another.
No Client Software or Plug-Ins to Install
One of the biggest advantages of a pure dynamic HTML web-based system is that
the client software is already installed. Not having to schedule IT to install
software at every workstation greatly reduces implementation time and cost.
PrintOS works with all mainstream Mozilla based web browsers, from Internet
Explorer 3 and Netscape 4 to today’s latest versions.
Easy Access to Network File Folders
With PrintOS you can browse for your documents on shared folders over most types
of networks, Windows, Novell, Linux, Unix, even Mac.
Use on Any Platform
Your investment is further protected from the barriers of a mixed computer
environment because it can be used on any type of computer, PC, Mac, Linux, or
Unix. Because it is browser based, PrintOS lets you leverage the full advantage
of wireless, Tablet PC, and handheld PDA technologies. Attended or Unattended
Print Queue Operation
With PrintOS, users can output collated print sets directly to a printer or to a
held queue awaiting further review and submission by a print production
operator.
Photo Realistic Color
PrintOS supports viewing and printing of large high resolution color images, in
file formats like TIFF, JPEG, Adobe PDF, Adobe PostScript*, even Adobe PhotoShop
PSD, and supports Mr. SID which is used for GIS and remote sensing image data.
For Reprographics
As print job orders are configured and submitted by clients, the jobs show up in
the PrintOS Jobs Queue. Each job in the queue listing is color coded for status,
and arranged in the order of receipt. From any workstation in your facility,
production personnel can direct a job to the appropriate printer using a web
browser. PrintOS can also be used by production assistants to configure and
assemble print jobs. PrintOS gives you all these capabilities without installing
software throughout your company.
For Engineering and CAD Departments
PrintOS empowers a design team to easily issue print requests directly to the
printer queue without tying up the designers’ workstations.
For the Front Office PrintOS allows non-CAD users to view design data
as if it were printed on paper. With the same system, they can access and print
office and legal documents.
Centralized and Remote Printing
PrintOS print jobs are processed and sent directly from the host computer,
reducing network traffic and eliminating the need to install and verify printer
drivers on every client desktop.
Share Costly Wide Format Network Printers and Plotters
Anyone in your department will be PrintOS even collates the job with the first
page on top and the last page on the bottom of the stack, thus eliminating
costly sorting time at the document output tray of the printer.
“Shopping Cart” Style Batch Printing
Users can easily assemble their own print sets with a “shopping cart”
mechanism. They select the files they want to print and add them to a list which
they can rearrange and apply settings such as sheet size and number of copies.
Then they can output collated print sets directly to a printer or to a held
queue awaiting further review and submission by a print room or reprographics
production operator.
Supports Native CAD, Office, and Imaging Formats
Because PrintOS supports native document and imaging file formats there are no
costly publishing procedures when posting files. Files are simply copied or
saved to a PrintOS shared network file folder.
WYSIWYP Plot Styles, Screening, and Line Weights
Anyone who’s ever seen a CAD file displayed on a computer can remember a
rendering of bright colored geometric figures on top of a dark background. The
fact is that most users of a CAD document have no idea what the colors mean.
PrintOS can display CAD files and all other types of documents exactly as they
appear when printed out on paper, with the correct line thicknesses, font
styles, shading, etc. In other words, “What You See Is What You Print”.
Embedded RIP Rendering Engine
The PrintOS print controller processes native files, file formats for sharing,
as well as print and plot file formats. This flexibility allows documents to be
captured, used and archived at any phase within their lifecycle, from scan file
indexing and conversion process to the printing of construction, production, and
as-built drawing sets and specifications. PrintOS has the option for direct
support of files from high-end CAD systems like Pro/E, Unigraphics, CATIA, and
Solid Works, as well as image compression technologies such as Mr. SID and JPEG
2000 formats used for maps and remote sensing data.
Deliver Document Sets in PDF, DWF, CGM, or TIFF
The same “shopping cart” mechanism used for Batch Printing can be used to
convert entire document sets to PDF, DWF, CGM, TIFF and many more file formats
for distribution via email saving lots of money in shipping costs not to mention
production delays.
Avoid Client Tools with DWF, the Plot File of the Future
Autodesk has set the standard for a portable file format for collaboration and
print publishing. DWF is the most prominent and visible plotting method in
AutoCAD 2005. Because PrintOS supports DWF, no special client tools or buttons
need to be installed on your AutoCAD workstations to produce PDF files or
proprietary LDF files, everything is built into AutoCAD. DWF is set up just like
a plotter driver in AutoCAD, only it supports multiple drawings with sheet sets
and sheet names all in one file. Autodesk provides a free DWF viewer so users
can preview files to make sure they are correct prior to submission. Autodesk
also offers a low cost editor and makup tool for DWF files.
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