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Publish a Prinergy Evo Virtual Printer

When you print to this virtual printer, Prinergy Evo will automatically refine the file using the process template you selected.

  1. Read the pages in the Prinergy Evo Client Help section: Creating virtual printers.
  2. Determine which type of virtual printer you will use in your Prinergy Evo workflow: AppleTalk or LPR. Read the appropriate procedure for your environment:
    • Prinergy Evo Client Help: Publishing a Prinergy Evo AppleTalk virtual printer
    • Prinergy Evo Client Help: Adding a LPR IP virtual printer
  3. Start Prinergy Evo, and from the Configure menu, select Virtual Printers.
  4. Click New.
  5. In the New Virtual Printer dialog box, select a refine to PDF process template.
  6. In the Name field, type a name for the new refine to PDF virtual printer.
    Use a name that will help users identify the printer from their desktop applications. For this exercise, you could name this printer Prinergy_Evo_Refine_to_PDF.
  7. Select the type of printer you want to use:
    • AppleTalk
    • IP Printing (LPR)
  8. Click Set to browse for a folder to save the refined PDF.
    The folder location displays in the Default Output Location area.
  9. Select a folder where Prinergy Evo should send refined PDF files and click OK.
    Note: Prinergy Evo Server software must have read, write, and modify privileges on the folder from which you submit input files to Prinergy Evo. You can store your input files on the shared JobData file server volume on the Prinergy Evo server computer, and access them from a client computer.
  10. In the New Virtual Printer dialog box, click Create.
    Prinergy Evo creates a new print driver that is available to your client computers.
  11. Close the Virtual Printer dialog box.

Add the virtual printer to each client computer

Next, you need to configure each of your computers to use the new virtual printer you created.

  1. For each computer that will submit files to Prinergy Evo via the virtual printer, determine:
    • What operating system is the computer using (Windows or Mac OS)?
    • What network protocol is the computer using to communicate with the Prinergy Evo virtual printer (AppleTalk or TCP/IP)?
  2. Add the Prinergy Evo virtual printer to the operating system of each computer that will submit files to Prinergy Evo via the virtual printer. Choose from the following Prinergy Evo Client Help topics and follow the instructions that apply to your network and operating system configuration:
    • Adding an AppleTalk virtual printer on a Mac OS
    • Adding an AdobePS virtual printer to a Windows Client
    • Adding the LPR IP virtual printer on a Mac OSX
    • Adding the LPR IP virtual printer for Windows-based computers

Submit Input to Prinergy Evo by printing to a virtual printer

After you have added the virtual printer to the (client) computer operating system, the printer is available to your desktop applications. You can now submit input files to Prinergy Evo by printing directly to the new virtual printer from applications like QuarkXPress and InDesign.

  1. Open a document in a desktop page layout or text-editing application. For example, you may use QuarkXPress, InDesign, Microsoft Wordpad, or Notepad.
  2. From the File menu in your desktop application, select Print.
  3. In the Print dialog box, select the Prinergy Evo virtual printer you created in the previous procedure.
    In some applications, another Printer or Printer Properties dialog box will open.
  4. Select the Prinergy Evo Server IP address or server name. This represents the virtual printer you created. You do not need to adjust any other settings.
  5. Click Print.
    Your file will print to Prinergy Evo. Prinergy Evo will automatically refine the file via the process template you associated with the virtual printer.
  6. In Prinergy Evo, open the Process Viewer. You can view the status of your file as it is refined.
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