Note: AppleTalk is not supported by Microsoft Windows Server 2008. It may still be installed using a third-party AppleTalk protocol software, and used for font downloading, AFP sharing, and setting up virtual printers.

  1. From the Configure menu, select Virtual Printers.
  2. In the New Virtual Printer dialog box in the Pick a Refine Process Template list, select a Refine to PDF or output from PostScript process template.

You can only modify the attached process template settings via the Configure menu Process Templates option. See Editing process templates.

  1. In the Name box, type the name of the virtual printer to be able to identify it from your Apple Talk Chooser or SMB Finder (Mac OS X only), or Add Printer (Windows only). For example, Prinergy Evo PDF printer. Defaults to the attached process template name. The Name box defaults to the selected process template name.

Important: If you are going to print from a Windows-based computer via the Prinergy Evo virtual printer, this name must be in ASCII characters (for example, western language characters) and contain no spaces. If you create the name using UNICODE characters (for example, Chinese characters) and print from a Windows-based computer to Prinergy Evo software, the file will not print. This is a limitation in the Windows operating system.

  1. Select Apple Talk to publish the virtual printer as an AppleTalk print driver.
  2. click Browse to select a location to save the processed file.

The folder location becomes the default folder location in the selected process template Processed File Preferences section, if you select the Send Processed Files to Default Location option.
If you select Send Processed Files To: check box in the process template, Processed File Preferences section, this location overrides any locations you selected in the New Virtual Printer dialog box.
Important: The Prinergy Evo server computer must have read, write, and modify privileges on the folder from which you submit input files to, and save output files from Prinergy Evo software. Kodak recommends that your input files are located in the shared JobData folder on the Prinergy Evo server computer and you mount them from your Prinergy Evo client computer.

  1. Click Create.

Prinergy Evo software creates the AppleTalk virtual printer.

  1. From your Print Center (Macintosh OS X), add the Apple Talk print driver, using the <SystemFolder>/Prinergy Refiner PPD that you installed when you installed the Prinergy Evo Client.
  2. Perform one of the following: