Hi,
forgive my poor english.
I have to print a large amount of invoices and this sature the memory of my Planetpress server. How i can save the template(the design of the page made in planetpress design) in the hard disk of the printer to only send the data?.

Hi diego,

This is done by opening your document in Design, then from the menu, you do Send To->Printer, choose the printer and choose "Hard disk" as the Printer storage. (it's the default option) This will upload the document to your printer's hard disk.

To be able to call it when you send your data, a trigger needs to be added at the beginning of the data. Here's a typical trigger:

%!PS-Adobe
(DOCUMENT) run DOCUMENT

Where "DOCUMENT" will be the name of your PlanetPress document. (not the file's name, but the name defined in the document's properties. By default, it's "Document1".) Once you add these two lines, and send your data to the printer, it should be able to call the document automatically.

Here's some things you should watch for:
- You must print your data as raw text. I suggest that you send your file directly through lpr or anything that would send the raw text data directly to the printer without a driver. Or, maybe you can try a Generic Text driver, configure the queue to use LPR, and try that. Check out the trigger implementation guide for more information/ideas on things you can try:

http://help.objectiflune.com/EN/planetpr...ata-capture.pdf

- Please note that in order to use printer-resident documents, you will need to purchase a PlanetPress printer license, if you haven't already done so. (even if you have Production, which allows you to print Optimized PostScript to any printer, but not Printer Centric)

Hope that helps!

Regards,
Raphaël Lalonde Lefebvre

Thanks Raphael!
I have one more question. I usually work in this way: i create the template in PlanetPress design and send this document to the Planetpress suite workflow. Then, in the Planetpress production, (as output) i choose this document (.ptk) to print the documents with the driver for Windows.
In the case that the document is saved in the hard disk printer, what document i have to choose in the driver for Windows output?

Regards

Hi diego,

In the case of a printer-resident document, you must not use "Print Using a Windows Driver". You must use a regular printer queue output, and you also must not use a .ptk document. Instead, you must use "passthrough", to send the data directly to the printer as pure text. And don't forget to add the trigger! (you could use an "Add/Remove Text" action right before the printer queue output to add the trigger)

Regards,
Raphaël Lalonde Lefebvre

Thanks Raphael.
I understand better now!. But I add this two lines to my file with the add/delete text task before printing.
%!PS-Adobe
run FACTURA
I can not print the template. When i insert this two lines manually it work but when i insert with the task it does not.

I have to add some printer specific character before the trigger??
Regards

The standard trigger is usually:

%!PS-Adobe
(FACTURA) run FACTURA

Can you try adding the name in parenthesis on the second line, and see if that works better?

Thanks Raphael. I can fix the problem.
But i have another problem. The template that i save in hard disk printer is duplex(text in both sides). When i print the file it print in two pages. If i want to print duplex how i can set the printer?
With the windows driver output i set the printer preferences but now i print with a printer queue output.

Regards

Hi Diego,

You will need to set it in the PlanetPress document's Paper Handling properties. When you double-click on your document in the Document Structure, you can go to Paper Handling, and change the duplex setting there. This will make your entire job duplex. You can also set this in the pages instead, meaning that you could have some pages duplex, and some simplex. (note that some printers don't support switching from simplex to duplex in the same job)

It's possible that you will need to obtain a ppd file made for your printer. In the document's basic attributes, you'll see "Designed for", and "Default Printer" is selected. This is a set of standard postscript printers features and configurations, but it doesn't work with all printers. If it still won't duplex, you will need to obtain a ppd for your printer, and import it in that list, then select it. You might have to go back to Paper Handling, and reselect a new duplex setting after that. (some ppds might require you to use the Advanced Paper Handling commands instead, if it's duplex settings are not standard...) PPD files can usually be found on printer manufacturers websites.

Regards,
Raphaël Lalonde Lefebvre

Hi Raphael,
If a have a printer that works with an external RIP, i have to save the template in the printer hard disk or in the RIP?


Regards!

Hi diego,

Most likely in the RIP, since the merging will probably be done on the RIP, before it sends it to the printer. And make sure that the PPD file that you use take the RIP into account. (some PPDs file are for the printer, but don't include any rip commands... you must use a ppd that has rip commands)

Regards,
Raphaël Lalonde Lefebvre