| March 2006 Newsletter | |
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Print Wizard 3.0 Licensing |
Print Wizard version 3.0 includes all the necessary support for Print Wizard Personal Edition and Print Wizard Server Edition. When you run Print Wizard as a demo (60-day evaluation), the program assumes you are working on a Server Edition and all options are available to you. Once you enter a license code for the Personal Edition, Print Wizard Services, Windows Services and a few more features become unavailable. You must have a Server Edition license to utilize Services and remote retrieval of print jobs. The basic Print Wizard Personal Edition license is set to support up to 3 printers that it can print to at any given time. If you will be using the Personal Edition software to print to more than 3 printers, you need to contact us for further licensing options. Personal Edition is sold on a per PC basis. Pricing options are available for quantity discounts for multiple PCs.The Print Wizard Server Edition license supports a specific number of printers available to the print server, depending on the license you purchase:
Like Print Wizard Personal Edition, Print Wizard Server Edition is licensed for one machine per license. Multiple licenses would be required to run multiple PCs. Full pricing can be found at our web site. |
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What are Print Wizard services? |
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Print Wizard Server Edition contains many ways for printing files. The most common way to print a remote file is through a “service”. Services are programs that “watch” for events to happen. In the case of Print Wizard, this involves watching either for a print job to show up in a specific directory (despooling), or watching for a job to arrive over a network port. Print Wizard supports two types of services, Print Wizard Services and Windows Services for Print Wizard.
Both services are managed through the Print Wizard user interface. Refer to the Print Wizard manual for more information. |
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AnzioWin and "ink" |
AnzioWin supports Microsoft’s “ink”. “ink” is the protocol that allows a Tablet PC to draw on the screen. With “ink” installed on a normal desktop, you can also draw using your mouse or a pen tablet, directly into an application. AnzioWin has made “ink” available for the Print Preview screen, allowing you to draw and mark-up print jobs prior to printing them. Within the AnzioWin “Print Preview” feature turned on, you will get a preview of each and every passthrough print job. From the preview screen, you can then draw with your mouse or an add-on pen device. And with a right-mouse-click, you can control the eraser, the pen color, turn ink on and off and clear the pen markings.This makes a nice feature for marking up passthrough print, or even signing off on a print job. Contact us for more information. |
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Anzio Lite and passthrough print jobs |
Unlike AnzioWin, with its embedded Print Wizard features, printing special forms and jobs in Anzio Lite can be a chore. Print Wizard auto-fits print jobs to the correct paper size, handles forms overlays, adjusts for margins and non-printable area, translate PCL codes to print on a non-PCL printer, and can even start printing labels at a certain location. None of this is available to Anzio Lite. However, there certain things you can do to help get that print out to look exactly like you want. If you are doing a lot of non-standard printing, or printing on special forms, check out AnzioWin. Anzio Lite does allow you to set your printer font, which does get carried forward with your defaults. It also allows you to set various printer setup options including whether you are printing to spooler (raw data to the driver) or high (letting the Windows driver control the print job).With the printer setup and the default printer font, you can usually get pretty close to what you want. The problem is that you will need to do this per job, if jobs require different settings. That is where AnzioWin has its advantage, adjusting according to the data. |
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