For more information about Barr Enterprise Print Server, contact Barr Systems.Barr Enterprise Print Server gives you complete control of printing and routing network documents. You can direct files from the LAN, Windows programs, or host computers to a variety of destinations, including printers and other hosts.
For more information about Barr Enterprise Print Server, contact Barr Systems.
You can manage the routing of all documents from a single, combined print queue. At a glance, you get a comprehensive view of all documents and printers, instead of having to open separate windows to view individual Windows queues for each destination device. You can also fully customize the queue display. While the spool is operating, you can sort the documents a variety of ways and change what type of information displays for each document without interrupting spool activity.
Control of documents and printers is at your fingertips. You can manually change document routing criteria, such as copies and priority, by editing the information displayed on screen. With a click of the mouse, you can start and stop all spool activity, start and stop individual documents or printers, or send commands to reset printers. If a printer jams, you can quickly redirect documents to another device.
Advanced features include routing copies of a single document to several different printers or automatically overriding document routing criteria. You can also use built-in utilities to create print banners and FCBs.
Barr Enterprise Print Server consists of several applications and services. It also makes use of the Windows spooler service. Implementing such services has a variety of advantages:
Barr Enterprise Print server can operate in the background, even when applications are closed.
Users can log on or off the computer where Barr Enterprise Print Server is installed without interrupting spool operation.
Services can start automatically when you start the computer. If the computer restarts during unattended operation, spool operation can automatically restart.
With BARR/NJE, BARR/RJE, and BARR/PRINT TCP/IP, you can receive
documents from many different types of hosts on your enterprise network.
BARR/NJE, BARR/RJE, and BARR/PRINT TCP/IP must be purchased separately
as modules of the Barr Enterprise Print Server.
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Barr Enterprise Print Server includes the following features.
The system administrator determines which network users can view the spool queue and which features each user can access. An easy-to-use User Rights Configuration utility allows the system administrator to quickly define spool users and their privileges.
You can direct files to BARR/SPOOL from other Windows programs and automatically or manually read in files from any local or network drive using Print Utility. Using our optional modules, you can receive files from any TCP/IP host using BARR/PRINT TCP/IP LPD and socket and you can direct mainframe print jobs to the spool with BARR/NJE, BARR/RJE, or BARR/PRINT CHANNEL.
When files arrive in the Barr spool queue, they are called documents. You can route spool documents to another BARR/SPOOL, to disk (local or network), and Windows printers and print queues. Using our optional modules, you can route files to AFP printers, Channel printers, line printers, Hosts systems, Novell print queues, and TCP/IP printers, print queues, or sockets.
Barr Enterprise Print Server supports printing files with unlimited file sizes. It does not, however, support viewing or reprinting files greater than 4 GB, and acknowledges that an incorrect file size will appear on the Spool Window and the Retain Window.
BARR/SPOOL maintains complete mainframe-like spool queue attributes such as Job name, Form name, FCB name, UCS name, Priority, and Class. It also gives you complete control of attribute values.
Change Spool Window printer and document attributes by double-clicking a column and typing over the value.
Use the Barr Override Table to assign initial attribute values or to override them.
Use the printer port properties to assign attribute values to jobs originating from third-party programs.
Set attributes for LAN files you read in with the Barr Print Utility or the DOS PRT utility.
BARR/SPOOL performs automatic load balancing (or load sharing) of printers to improve printer utilization. The software uses an algorithm to distribute new jobs evenly among the available printers. To set up load balancing for two or more printers, make sure the Spool Window printers are set to a Ready state, and that they share the same routing criteria, such as Form name and Class.
Barr Enterprise Print Server enhances Windows print services, creating a fully functional enterprise-class print server. You can control enterprise-wide document management from a single queue window (Spool Window). Document management eliminates printer down time and insures that all devices are being used to the fullest potential.
Control the order in which documents display in the Spool Window and the order in which they print.
Delete documents or save them to another folder after they print.
Route a document to the first available printer or multiple printers
Schedule a document to print to a specific printer.
Barr Enterprise Print Server aids in the monitoring, allocation, and billing of printing services.
Select any combination of the BARR/SPOOL header fields to use in the accounting report. These header fields include information such as job name, number of pages, start and end print time, and so on.
Configure the print server to stop processing jobs for a specified printer if an error occurs with the accounting system.
Also packaged with the Barr Enterprise Print Server, is our Accounting Report Utility. While the print server generates a database file, which contains all information pertaining to a printed job, the Accounting Report Utility is used to create simple reports from the accounting database.
Easily create customized reports with the Configure Report Wizard.
Specify both date-specific and time-relative reporting for current or scheduled reports.
Produce multiple output formats such as HTML, delimited text file, and standard text file.
Save and modify multiple report configurations.
Barr Enterprise Print Server supports printer forms.
Vertical Forms Control – On channel-attached printers, Barr Enterprise Print Server supports vertical forms control with the FCB. For ASCII printers, the software emulates vertical forms control.
Electronic Forms – You can use form overlays to send EBCDIC or ASCII files that contain electronic forms or printer resources to the printer.
You can send print output using a TCP/IP network using LPR printers with the 4.3 Berkeley Software Development (BSD) protocol.
Barr Enterprise Print Server provides the following error recovery features.
Full error recovery guarantees no data gets lost from system failures.
A powerful viewing/reprinting feature makes it easy to recover from printer errors.
In 1998, Congress amended the Rehabilitation Act to require Federal agencies to make their electronic and information technology accessible to people with disabilities. Inaccessible technology interferes with an individual's ability to obtain and use information quickly and easily. Section 508 was enacted to eliminate barriers in information technology, to make available new opportunities for people with disabilities, and to encourage development of technologies that will help achieve these goals. The law applies to all Federal agencies when they develop, procure, maintain, or use electronic and information technology.
Barr Systems believes that Section 508 compliance is important for industry, government, and essential for people with disabilities. We proactively design accessible products and document how our products meet the Section 508 Standards. The Barr Enterprise Print Server meets most of the Section 508 software accessibility standards. The few exceptions in our product are not significantly disruptive to product functionality. In some instances, the functionality is accessible through equivalent, alternative means. Barr Systems is committed to devoting the time and resources necessary to ensure that all users enjoy access to our products, technologies, and services. We continue to deliver on our commitment by making each new release of our products more accessible than the last.
You can purchase Barr Enterprise Print Server modules that provide the following features.
With BARR/NJE, your computer can send and receive print data sets and jobs from one or more adjacent Network Job Entry (NJE) nodes. NJE is the way mainframes exchange print and job data sets. Using BARR/NJE with BARR/SPOOL gives you most of the features of the JES SPOOL, including all the features for naming, priority, copies, routing, and reprinting that are available in BARR/RJE or on the mainframe.
With BARR/RJE, your computer emulates a 3770 and supports SNA connections to mainframe job entry systems. BARR/RJE enables you to perform SNA file transfer, remote job entry, and remote printing from a computer.
Receive print jobs from any TCP/IP host using the BARR/PRINT TCP/IP module. The BARR/PRINT TCP/IP module emulates an LPD, which is the standard print server emulation used in TCP/IP environments. BARR/PRINT TCP/IP also provides a direct socket connection, which might be more appropriate depending on your needs. Traditionally, TCP/IP hosts were computers running a UNIX operating system, such as a Sun Workstation, IBM RS/6000, or HP 9000. TCP/IP hosts now can be almost any type of computer, including Windows and Novell servers, DEC VAXs, IBM AS/400s, and IBM mainframes.
The BARR/PRINT TCP/IP module supports any number of simultaneous print requests on multiple queues or ports from any number of hosts.
With BARR/FTP, your computer can send and receive print jobs from any FTP host. BARR/FTP connects to and transfers files between your host and the Barr Enterprise Print Server using File Transfer Protocol (FTP). It allows you to send JCL, receive output, and monitor the JES queue using TCP/IP.
With the BARR/PRINT390 module, your computer can drive up to six channel-attached printers using the Bus & Tag interface.
With the BARR/PRINT AFP module, you can print any mainframe-based fully composed AFP print job directly to any Windows GDI printer (for example, a desktop laser printer). Printing in this manner eliminates the need for a set of processes that translate AFP data streams into IPDS streams, which are then routed to IPDS printers.
With the BARR/PRINT to EPS module, you can connect to virtually any source that produces Xerox print files and automatically route them to your network-attached EPS Acronym for Enterprise Printing System. printer.
BARR/TRANSFORM for Xerox Data takes Xerox line data (DJDE) and Metacode files and converts them to PCL, PostScript, or PDF for printing, archiving, or viewing on the Internet.
BARR/TOOLS for Xerox allows you to view and reprint your Xerox line data (DJDE) and Metacode files. It provides accurate page count data to the Barr Enterprise Print Server Accounting tool. If you want to convert the Xerox data to other print formats (such as PCL, PostScript, PDF, etc.), then you need to purchase BARR/TRANSFORM for Xerox Data.
With the BARR/Web Interface module, you can access the Barr Enterprise Print Server remotely. Remote users can monitor printers in their print center from the comfort of their office. Also, they can pause, cancel, and redirect print jobs to different printers, view text in the print files, and change a job’s priority in the queue based on routing criteria. Contact a Barr sales representative to learn more about the new BARR/Web Interface.
You can use BARR/PRINT SPLITTER to split text jobs, AFP jobs, and jobs containing Xerox Metacode or LCDS data. When the job is split, the print stream is split into 2 or more parts, up to 7. Job splitting allows multiple printers to print critical jobs quickly, always splitting on page or sheet boundaries.
By itself, BARR/PRINT AFP accepts only fully-composed AFP data. With the BARR/COMPOSE AFP option, BARR/PRINT AFP provides genuine IBM ACIF technology so it can also accept line or mixed-mode AFP data streams.