Barr Enterprise Print Server - Print and Output Manager
Barr Enterprise Print Server (BEPS) is a Windows-based input/output manager designed to receive data from multiple sources and distribute data to multiple destinations. Our print and output manager can help you automate and control your print and document output across your organization. You can customize the print and output manager to connect to IBM mainframes, AS/400s, TCP/IP hosts, and network applications. In addition, you can select various output modules to connect to high-speed production printers, report distribution systems, and electronic storage systems.
BEPS is a print and output manager that provides:
Document Distribution– route documents across the building or around the world. Remote and local print, fax, save to file, save as a PDF, and e-mail all your complex documents and forms.
Host and Mainframe Printing – integrate your mainframe applications into your corporate network and distribute documents from applications from SAP, Oracle, Computer Associates, etc.
Print Spooling and Management– simplifies print and document distribution by centrally managing your output from one location.
Production Print Management – helps to ensure that all printers are being used to their maximum potential by recording accounting data for completed print transactions.
Print Stream Transformation - converts documents, document batches, and spooled print output to practically any format.
Data Repurposing – separate, classify, index, and convert documents to make it easy to present, print, archive, and use your business information.
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Centralized access and control of business documents
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Provides a single output management solution for multiple platforms (mainframes, AS/400s, TCP/IP hosts, network applications, etc)
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Creates an audit trail for all output transactions
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Helps organizes information delivery across the enterprise
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Greater flexibility for producing and delivering enterprise output
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Convert print streams from one format to another without application or programming changes
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Increase the number of output destinations available without adding equipment
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Support any traditional output format including – ASCII, EBCDIC, AFP, Adobe PDF and PostScript, Xerox Metacode and LCDS, and PCL
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Lower costs associated with printing and distributing documents
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Reduces the number of print servers and software needed in your enterprise
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Provides an easy way to recover from printing and distribution errors
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Eliminates pre-printed forms
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Receives files from a variety of sources, including Windows programs, TCP/IP hosts, mainframes, UNIX machines, and network directories.
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Drives an unlimited number of printers.
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Create multiple copies of a single document and send them to different destinations.
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Performs automatic load balancing (or load sharing) by distributing new jobs evenly among the available printers.
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Burst and bundle your business reports.
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Tracks and manages the use of printers by collecting accounting data for completed print transactions.
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Splits print jobs to allow multiple printers to print critical jobs quickly, always splitting on page or sheet boundaries.
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Uses AES (Rijndael), a fast, robust encryption algorithm, with data compression and decompression to encrypt transmissions between other Barr Enterprise Print Servers and Mainframe Downloader.
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Retain copies of spool documents so you can restore them if the primary data is lost or destroyed.
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Requirements
Software:
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Microsoft Windows 2000, or Microsoft Windows 2003 Server
- Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5.5 or later
Hardware:
Minimum:
- 1.0 GHz Pentium processor
- 512 MB of RAM
- 30 GB Hard Drive
- CD-ROM drive
- SVGA Display
- Parallel or USB port
- PCI slots half-length and full-height for Barr adapters
Recommended:
- 2.8 GHz Processor with Hyper threading
- 1 GB of RAM
- 36 GB SCSI or SATA Hard Drive
- CD-ROM-RW or USB Flash Drive
- Configured/Tested backup system (dependent on downtime tolerance)
Note: These are basic recommendations. Specific requirements are dependent on the operating system, expected production volume, and other applications.
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