User`s guide

Chapter 3:Introduction
PShop User’s Guide - 5
PShop Highlights
PShop adds many valuable enhancements to the UNIX printing environment.
PShop can run on the most popular UNIX platforms and supports every
application (such as FrameMaker, Netscape, etc.) that prints PostScript to named
print queues. Many image file formats and document types are automatically
recognized and printed correctly by PShop. Over 2,000 printers, both
PostScript-compatible and non-PostScript printers are supported, including dye
sublimation, thermal wax, laser and ink jet. The following is a brief synopsis of
PShop’s capabilities and features:
• Automated Installation
• Supports all PostScript printers and their options
• Ability to print PostScript levels 1, 2 and 3 to non-PostScript printers
• Image enables and PDF enables all supported printers. PShop’s automatic
file format detection (TIFF, GIF, Sun Raster, EPSI, PostScript, JPEG, PBM,
X11 bitmap, XWD, PNG, SGI RGB, PDF, ASCII text, etc.) allows for batch
printing of documents of multiple formats.
• Capable of printing directly from applications such as Netscape,
Applixware, WABI, Interleaf, FrameMaker, WordPerfect and any other
UNIX application that assumes that you are printing to a PostScript printer.
• Capacity to print screen shots from the X windows system
• Ready for Users and administrator to add headers and footers to any print job
• PShop’s PostScript RIP “rasterizes ahead” for faster printing output
• Enhancement of Print control parameters for adjusting image brightness,
resolution, color balance, size, orientation, etc.
• Ability to control line art, gray scale, indexed color and indexed gray images
• Comes with License manager software to generate reports on peak usage
times, histogram reports and license usage levels, in addition to printer
accounting and log files
• Is certified for Year-2000 compliance. Contact Vividata for details.
For further information on using PShop and its options, please refer to the
appropriate sections: “Chapter 4: Using PShop” on page 9 and “Appendix A:
vvprint/vvlpr Commands & Parameters” on page 21.