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#32760 - 07/20/10 02:10 PM Archive Print file option
Uomo Del Ghiaccio Offline
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I would like the ability to store a print ready file such as an archive when sending to a Printer Queue Output.

I specifically need this when using either the Queue Balancing or Round Robin set to multiple printers.

I need to be able to specify how many days I keep the print ready jobs for and be able to name the files using the standard variables.
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#32761 - 08/11/10 03:24 PM Re: Archive Print file option
Philippe F. Offline
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The problem with Print-ready files is that they have to be stored as PS files, which makes them difficult to send through a round-robin/queue balancing task afterwards. Think, for instance, of mixed-plex jobs where pages may arbitrarily be sent to different printers... without consideration for front-side/back-side issues.

If you don't use round-robin or queue-balancing, you can obviously save the entire job easily so it can be resent later. But if you do use the above, one way you could still achieve this is to create several "Send To Folder" printer queues. Now in your process, add a Printer Output task and set your round-robin options appropriately. At run time, the task will create as many print-ready fragments of the original file as there are print queues specified in the task. Anyone of these files can then be resubmitted to a printer at a later time.

Does that sound like what you're trying to achieve?
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#32762 - 08/11/10 03:30 PM Re: Archive Print file option
Uomo Del Ghiaccio Offline
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In this situation, I need to do round robin coupled with a SNMP check of the printer. They want to archive the job that was sent to the printer for a number of days. They will have 3 printers that are all the same make and model. If they lose a job, they want the ability to resend the lost jobs
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#32763 - 08/11/10 03:48 PM Re: Archive Print file option
Philippe F. Offline
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Well I think you could still use the technique I described to create 3 print-ready files.
Then, you could have a separate process that sends each those files to its printer, after the appropriate SNMP check.

You just have to add a Send to Folder at some point to store the files in some archive folder. Another, separate PP-Workflow process can run every week (for isntance) to clean out this archive folder of any file that's older than that.
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