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Miscellaneous Tab
The Miscellaneous tab is common to all tasks.
Check the option Use as step description to display the text next to the icon of the plugin in the Pro-
cess area.
Print using a Windows driver
Printing Using a Windows Driver Output tasks task lets you send a job to a local or network printer,
using its own drivers. The printer does not need to be a PostScript printer.
Since the printer driver itself is not necessarily PostScript, Workflow cannot optimize the print file, so
this task will always generate a larger and slower print job. However, this Output task can work with
non-PostScript printers such as HP PCL printers.
The Print Using a Windows Driver Output task requires a PlanetPress Workflow license, otherwise this
plugin will cause a watermark.
Note: This type of output task does not support PDF transparency and duo-tone features, so you
should not use it with PlanetPress Design documents that use those features.
Input
This task can accept either a data file with a correct emulation (see "About data emulation" on
page54), which is then merged to a PlanetPress Design document, or a PDF file which is to be printed
natively.
Processing
Either the data file is merged with the document if one is selected, or the PDF File is printed natively
through the PlanetPress Printer driver (which prints the same as if one were to open the PDF in a PDF
reader and print it).
Task properties
General Tab
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Printer queue: Select the queues to which you want to send the output. Note that this is a vari-
able property box, so you can use various schemes to use printer queue names that change with
each job at run-time.
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Properties: Click to change the current printer queue properties. Note that PlanetPress Work-
flow generates the job file and hands it over with the available print options to the Windows print
driver, which takes the relay for the actual printing part, so there is no way for your PlanetPress
Workflow Tool to ensure that all the settings you make will be applied to the printed document.
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