What is WēPO and Web Page "Push" Printing?
by Bobby Ezell

WēPO is unique in the field of web page and web server design, but bridges a gap between web servers and local printing.

WēPO is our Web Print Object, an ActiveX web component that encapsulates all the Print Wizard features into a web page component for direct printing. It takes a remote print job and “pushes” it out to the user’s browser printer, making remote printing of a web page simple for the user to do.

As a web page component it can be placed on any web page as a button, or hidden and used from a script. When clicked or initiated, WēPO will fetch a print job from some remote host system or web server and print it to any printer the user can see from their web browser.

And utilizing the embedded Print Wizard functionality within WēPO, it can auto fit the print job, translate PCL, include forms overlays and generally manipulate the file any way you please, adding many possibilities to your printing environment.

And it does it all while remaining completely printer independent.

WēPO is sold by web server / domain name so your users do not have to purchase individual copies in order for this to work. Contact us for more information.

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How to use Anzio's Review Option
by Bobby Ezell

AnzioWin includes a “review” buffer that contains all information that has scrolled off the screen.

Under the Diagnose menu you can select “Review (scrollback)” and view pages of data that has scrolled.

Once you select this item, you can use the up and down arrows and the page-up and page-down keys to navigate backwards and forwards through the buffer. This allows you to go backwards and print screens, copy and paste and even capture the screen.

But why does it not contain everything?

The review buffer in Anzio keeps track of anything that has scrolled off the screen. It does not track anything that may have been cleared by a clear-screen command, overwritten by other characters or lost by the host resizing the screen.

Check out our web site for more information.

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What is Print Wizard's "Listen" Service?
by Bob Rasmussen

The Print Wizard engine includes a service whereby you can “listen” on a network port for incoming print jobs, waiting for something to process.

The “listen” mode in Print Wizard is identical to the protocol used by Hewlett Packard Jet Direct ® devices, in that (by default) it listens for network traffic on port 9100 and assumes it is print traffic.

The Print Wizard engine can be started in this manner, waiting for any incoming data and processing it as a print job. You do this with command line switches. An example is

printwiz.exe /listen /vport=9100

where “vport” is optional. In later versions of Print Wizard, other utilities and service programs accomplish the same thing.

In Print Wizard version 3 or later, this can also be ran as a Print Wizard Service or as a Windows Service for Print Wizard. See the Print Wizard documentation for more information.

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Do I need Print Wizard Server Edition
or Print Wizard Personal Edition?
by Bobby Ezell

There are two versions of Print Wizard currently available, Print Wizard Personal Edition and Print Wizard Server Edition. But which do you need?

Figuring out which you need is not that hard. A good rule of thumb is that if you are printing local files on a local PC, one print job at a time, then Print Wizard Personal Edition is what you need.

If you are receiving print jobs from remote sources or waiting for print jobs to despool, then you want Print Wizard Server Edition.

both include the Print Wizard DLL and support for the Print Wizard Mark-up Language (PWML).

However, only the Print Wizard Server Edition can wait for print jobs from a local or network despool directory, or from an FTP despool directory. It is alos the version you need to receive print jobs from remote sources, such as over the LPD/LPR protocol or the “listen” protocol.

Rule of thumb:
If you are receiving print jobs from remote sources or waiting for a print job to appear in a
despool directory, then you need Print Wizard Server Edition.

So consider what you are going to use Print Wizard for and you should be able to determine which one you need.

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