Administrator's Guide

Table of contents
1 Introduction to Digital Sending ..................................................................................................................... 1
Digital sending overview ....................................................................................................................... 2
Introduction to DSS .............................................................................................................................. 3
Features overview ............................................................................................................... 4
Supported devices – Legacy device support ....................................................................... 5
Embedded Digital Sending vs DSS ...................................................................................................... 6
Differences ........................................................................................................................... 6
Advantages of DSS ............................................................................................................. 8
DSS vs Web Jetadmin ....................................................................................................................... 10
What is new in DSS 4.91? .................................................................................................................. 11
2 Theory of operations .................................................................................................................................... 13
Components ....................................................................................................................................... 14
DSS Service ...................................................................................................................... 14
Configuration Utility ............................................................................................................ 15
DSS-enabled device .......................................................................................................... 16
I.R.I.S. OCR engine ........................................................................................................... 17
Database ........................................................................................................................... 18
Local Data Store ................................................................................................................ 18
Third-party tools ................................................................................................................. 18
Remote Configuration Utility .............................................................................................. 19
Device firmware ................................................................................................................. 19
Understand licensing .......................................................................................................................... 19
Trial license ........................................................................................................................ 20
Licensing requirements ...................................................................................................... 20
Auto-generate license ........................................................................................................ 20
Node Locking ..................................................................................................................... 20
3 Installation and configuration ...................................................................................................................... 23
Planning the DSS deployment ........................................................................................................... 24
System and environment requirements ............................................................................. 24
Software requirements ...................................................................................... 24
Hardware requirements ..................................................................................... 24
Device firmware requirements .......................................................... 25
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