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PlanetPress Suite print jobs
In PlanetPress Suite, the printer model and settings are defined in the Design document itself (see
"PlanetPress Design documents" on page42).
Print output is normally generated by an Output task that merges a PlanetPress Design document with
a data file (i.e. the job file). This can be either the "Print using a Windows driver" on page555 Output
task, or the "Printer Queue Output" on page556 Output task.
The latter has to be combined with at least one Printer Queue, and to ensure that the print output is
actually sent to the intended printer, you also have to:
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Create a matching Printer Queue in Workflow (see "PlanetPress Workflow printer queues"
below).
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Associate the document with that Printer Queue (see "Associating PlanetPress Design doc-
uments and PlanetPress printer queues" on page102).
Note that the Printer Queue Output task requires printer licenses, unless you have the “Optimized Out-
put” add-on in your Connect license, which grants you the equivalent of PlanetPress Production in Con-
nect Workflow. Even then, doing “printer-centric” output requires a printer license (see "Activate a
printer" on page708).
Printer-centric printing
Alternatively the merging of the document and data can take place inside a printer (if the printer is suit-
able for it). In that case, PlanetPress Workflow sends one of two things to a printer: a file that contains
only the data to the selected Printer Queue, along with a trigger that specifies which document the
printer should use to merge the data. The document must already be present on the printer’s hard disk
or memory, otherwise printing will fail; ora file that contains the data and the document to the selected
Printer Queue. Since the data and the document with which it must be merged are both sent to the
printer, printing should never fail.
PlanetPress Workflow printer queues
The printer queues displayed in the Configuration Components pane of the PlanetPress Workflow
Configuration program are not to be confused with Windows printer queues. When you start building a
PlanetPress Workflow configuration it contains no printer queues. If you want Workflow to dispatch
spool files to printer queues, you have to create queues in Workflow and set each one’s properties.
Printer Queue types
The PlanetPress Workflow Configuration program lets you create four types of printer queues:
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Windows Output printer queues are used to send print jobs to local or network printers. See "Win-
dows Output printer queue" on page96.
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