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    stethos ® Enhanced Laser Printing ELP User Guide Revision 8.2 For MS Windows NT based platforms Unix, Linux, Solaris, VMS, AS/400 and AIX As firmware extension for variouse laser printer[...]

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    Enhanced Laser Printing User manual About this manual This manual describes the user interface, which usually is not needed at all, as ELP works in 90% of all im plementat ions fully in the back ground. This manual descri bes for the standard end user: 1. How to collect page counters form network printers 2. Reprinting from the archives 3. Managing[...]

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    Enhanced Laser Printing User manual Software License Agreement IMPORTANT: Please read this License carefully before using the m anufacturer Software or Hardware, here inafter referred to as "SOFTWARE". The right to use this Software is granted only if th e Customer agrees to the terms of this License. If you do not agree to the term s of [...]

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    Enhanced Laser Printing User manual Table of Contents About this manual 2 Limited Warranty 3 Table of Contents 4 Contact and support address 4 Introduction 5 ELP functions overview 6 First steps with ELP Windows Software 9 Read page counters and display printer status 10 Change License Key 11 Generate and test forms within ELP 12 Forms generation 1[...]

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    Enhanced Laser Printing User manual Introduction The Enhanced Laser Printing Print Server Processor (/ ELP) is a software tool based mainly upon PCL 5 and with some rest rictions also on Postscript data streams. PC L is Hewlett-Packards Printe r Comm and Language which is used by nearl y all Laser and Business InkJets printer. The ELP im plementati[...]

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    Enhanced Laser Printing User manual ELP functions overview Basic ELP functions: • Easy generation and acivati on of macros / form s / logos etc out of print files (prn), and insert them on demand in dat a stream by searchi ng for the macro PCL sequences. • Search and add/insert or replace any text or any comm and, in any data stream. This funct[...]

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    Enhanced Laser Printing User manual • The PCL5/PCL6/TIFF to PDF convert er is optional and is li censed per server. eMail Function • Sending fully autom atic eMail s to any adress, found in the data stream . If the PDF converter is availabl e as PDF attachment. • Using trigger functions, y ou can define any subject and body text , for example[...]

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    Enhanced Laser Printing User manual Distributed printi ng, page • Send data stream t o different ports, queues or archives. Depending upon: Copy factors or fi le size. • Call any other soft ware or comm unication tool and readback data • Split a print job, for exam ple to archive each invoice • Send Data to any external soft ware, including[...]

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    Enhanced Laser Printing User manual First steps with ELP Window s Software Start PPAdmin and if displayed ent er your password. Default there is none or the funktuion is t urned off by your admi nistrator. By clicki ng on the button “Change Password” a new password can be set. If you do not want to set a password, simply click OK. In order to e[...]

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    Enhanced Laser Printing User manual Read page counters and display printer status ELP can be setup in a way, that o nly the archive fun ctionality is displayed. Is this the case, please skip this chapter. The install tab contains beside the ELP activation functionality, the p ossibility to read back printer informations from one or all printers, if[...]

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    Enhanced Laser Printing User manual Change License Key ELP can be setup in a way, that o nly the archive fun ctionality is displayed. Is this the case, please skip this chapter. On the License Tab the actual license key, the local machine name and if the key is valid, the am ount of licensed printers and the Modul e list are shown. To change a key,[...]

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    Enhanced Laser Printing User manual Generate and test forms within ELP The full functionalities are described in the ELP technical manual. As some system admin allow the user to define their own watermarks or fully real forms, like promotion advert isement of seasional greeting, this chapter describes t he most convinient way to generate forms. The[...]

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    Enhanced Laser Printing User manual In the first step please select your printed form file. After opening i t, the windows blow uis displa yed . Pleae provide a unique form/m acro numbe r between 1000 and 32000. Usually the inplementor of the rules will telly ou, who ch number you need to use for wh ioch result. The numbers are used in th e predefi[...]

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    Enhanced Laser Printing User manual Searching and reprinting from archives If ELP serves several archives, the DropDown field des display them all for selection. If the hook at “Search autostart” is enabled, ELP does automatically display the content of the first archive. In the field “Search Value” can be inserted any expression to search [...]

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    Enhanced Laser Printing User manual Print Archive File Several archived files can be selected for repri nting by holding down in the archi ve result window the Shift or C ontrol key and the files are sel ecte dwiththe mouse or with the cursor keys. It is also recom mended to m ove the main PPAdm in window to the left of the screen, so you can add l[...]

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    Enhanced Laser Printing User manual Examples: 3 Jobs each with 5 pages, selection is ma de from page 2 to 3 and they are printed on time as. As single jobs: Then from job 1, 2 and 3 always page 2 and 3 are printed As a copy or all in one job: Only page 2 and 3 from the first job is printed 3 Jobs with each 5 pages, selection is ma de from page 2 to[...]

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    Enhanced Laser Printing User manual Send Archive File as Email The eMail client needs to be in stalled and configured before this function is usabl e. After a single file i s selected and the eMailbut ton pressed, this new window pops up : There you can fill in the eMail ad dress, the subject and edit the default body text. In the properties you ca[...]

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    Enhanced Laser Printing User manual Manage print jobs ELP can manage for you print jobs in three ways: 1. Automatically: Using Queue Con trol for automatically queue management 2. Automatically: Use the monitored prin ting option fro m ELP 2. Using direct PPAdm in. The first two possibilites are describ ed in the administratior manual, here is the [...]

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    Enhanced Laser Printing User manual Job Ticketing Job Ticketing enables a user to easy set up for each job different reprinting rules. ELP needas to be installed to gether with the pr int driver on th e users PC. As explained in the next chapter, Job Account ing is also able to do t he same job, but all the settings through that method need to be p[...]

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    Enhanced Laser Printing User manual Amount of Copies Enter the amount of similar copi es, e.g,. First line defines only the first copy then insert 1 Copy, but the second lien defi nes 2 additional copies, then i nsert there 2. if a fourth copy should be generated, e.g. for the book keeping departm ent, then enter again 1 in the thirtd line. Paperty[...]

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    Enhanced Laser Printing User manual Project Accounting A second so called CallAtStartUp utility is the ACC_PROJECT.EXE, the project accoubnting nmodul of ELP. With this tool you can easi ly track printing cost s of any project or client, incl uding all available informations like paper size, color/black and white etc. But also, depending of the imp[...]

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    Enhanced Laser Printing User manual Collect Page Counter from your network printers ELP can collect from all network printers quit e some inform ations, beginning wi th actual page counters and ending with any MIB informat ion you can get out of the printer. Within PPAdmin there are 2 ways to start this function : 1. Admin – Page count 2. Install[...]

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    Enhanced Laser Printing User manual Each project can hold as many IP-Address ranges as you like. A Range can be only one printer address or two addresses: FR OM up to TO. Bith addresses are included in the research. In addition each project can define a unique project file name, to which ELP stores the results. Independent which mode i s used, the [...]

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    Enhanced Laser Printing User manual The Install m anual describes, the configure windows and how to add pri nters with new MIB addresses for new counters, as well as t ime sceduled operation. www.stethos.com - 24 -[...]

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    Enhanced Laser Printing User manual Index : Amount of Copi es 20 Archive 14 Cancel print jobs 18 Copy print jobs 18 CSV files 23 eMail all page counters 23 eMail out of archive 17 Form num ber 13 Forms installation 12 Generate forms 12 Hold print jobs 18 Install ELP Software 9 Job Ticketing 19 License Agreement 3 License Key 11 Macro 12 Manage prin[...]

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    Enhanced Laser Printing User manual Technical support For questions, inputs, additional support or any other reasons, please contact your local distributor. The address can be found i n the info box with PPADMIN at the license register. Also you may have a look at: 1. The Question and Answers document locat ed in the Manual section of the program s[...]