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RPM Remote Print Manager 5.0 Supports Customized Print Work Flows

Thursday 29. May 2008 - Brooks Internet Software, Inc.announces RPM Remote Print Manager 5.0, including new tools for creating print work flows. Dave Brooks, the company founder and president, says that the new RPM adds actions and transforms to the print processing model.

Each queue can have as many actions and transforms as the user desires. RPM’s classic features, including text and pass-through printing and filter processing, are now actions. For instance, a user can now accomplish broadcast printing by simply adding text print actions to a queue. Additional actions such as email and copy to queue have been added. With the addition of multi-stage processing, RPM now makes it simple for the user to construct complex print work flows.

A number of transforms have been added as well, including the often requested string translator, and COR (Computer Output Reduction) which automatically scales and rotates a page depending on content. Existing transforms, such as SCS, have also been enhanced.

Email capabilities have been added to the product. A print job can be sent as an attachment. Email status can be sent when processing is complete. Alerts can be sent to an email address, or even as a text message to a cell phone.

The company says that the most requested feature, PDF output, is now incorporated in RPM. PDF output mimics the text print settings for a high fidelity copy of the printed page. PDF supports Asian and European character sets, and right to left printing. PDF files can be archived, emailed or sent to a compatible printer.

Brooks adds that the product now has full Unicode support for reading and writing international character sets, and Unicode data such as UTF-8 and UCS-2.