Who should complete this activity

• System administrators

Why you should complete this activity

Use a Prinergy Evo virtual printer to automate your input workflow. A Prinergy Evo virtual print driver enables you to print your input file directly from your desktop application to Prinergy Evo to create a refined PDF file.

A Prinergy Evo virtual printer is a network print queue with a refine to PDF process template attached. Virtual printers can be accessed using either a AppleTalk or LPR (IP printing) print driver. You can print to a virtual printer from Mac OS X and Windows client computers. 

Recommended reading

Prinergy Evo Workflow Client user guide for your version of Prinergy Evo Workflow software. Search for: 

• Creating virtual printers

Time required to complete this activity

30 minutes

What you'll learn

You will learn how to configure a Prinergy Evo refine to PDF virtual printer. You will print to the virtual printer from your desktop publishing application (for example, QuarkXPress, InDesign).

What you'll need

In the location to which you extracted the activity files, find the Activity 15 folder and this file: HearthstoneB.xp4

What you'll do

• Create a virtual printer in Prinergy Evo that will automatically refine files submitted from a supported desktop application.
• Create a virtual printer on each of your computers in order to access the Prinergy Evo virtual printer.
• Submit a file to Prinergy Evo for refining to PDF directly from a desktop application to the new virtual printer.