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l Windows Driver Printing:
l The Print using a Windows Driver output task lets you send a job to any printer
installed on the computer, using its own drivers. In this particular case, the printer
does not need to be a PostScript printer. See "Print Using a Windows Driver" on
page629.
PlanetPress Workflow provides you with three main printing scenarios:
l Send output data to be printed as is: PlanetPress Workflow sends a file containing only
the data to the selected queue.
l Send output data to be merged with a document on the printer: PlanetPress
Workflow sends one of two things:
l A file that contains only the data to the selected printer queue. The document with
which the data must be merged must be present on the printer’s hard disk,
otherwise printing will fail.
l 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.
l In both cases, the document+data merging process takes place inside the printer.
l Send output data already merged with a document:PlanetPress Workflow sends a file
that contains the document already merged with the data to the selected printer queue.
The document+data merging process therefore never takes place inside the printer.
Technical
In PlanetPress Workflow Configuration, you may associate a single Printer Queue
output task with multiple Printer Queues. If you do so, you have the option of using load
balancing or not (See "Load Balancing" on page77).
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 so you
have to create queues and set each one’s properties.
The PlanetPress Workflow Configuration program lets you create four types of printer queues:
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