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Features

steadyPRINT 7.5

The new features of the current version.

Print Templates

Printer Reliability

Cost Centers

Printer Features

Printer Tags

Rule-Based Printing incl. Message Box

The new steadyPRINT Virtual Printer Driver

Multi-Admin Management with Journaling

Cloud Storage

Print Templates.

The so called “print templates” represent a central topic. They offer the administrator the possibility to store printer settings as a template for the user. The different template types force or predefine printer settings for selection.

The user selects the public templates via a dop-down menu. This way, he/she does not have to look for the required setting in the manufacturer’s driver menu – this has already been done and stored by the administrator. In addition, however, the user is allowed to modify the settings in the VPD driver interface.

Protected-Templates are assigned by the administrator as soon as permanently defined settings are to be specified that cannot be modified by the user. The user is only permitted to choose between the different protected templates. A modification of the settings via the VPD driver is not possible.

Printer Reliability.

If a document is printed via the vFlow printer and sent to a printer that is not available or offline, it is automatically sent to the backup printer as defined in the workflow. The user is notified of the transfer via a pop-up window. Alternatively, the printout is stored in the SecurePrint batch so that the user can individually choose to which printer the document is to be sent.

Cost Centers.

With steadyPRINT VPD it is possible to calculate printing costs on the basis of page prices (mono and color) stored for a cost center. For this purpose, the administrator creates cost centers via the steadyPRINT Center and stores the respective users. During the printing process, the number of pages is booked to the corresponding cost center. Finally, a report provides a cost overview for the respective cost center and enables an export of the information.

Printer Features.

steadyPRINT now offers the option to collect printer functions (e.g. duplex, punching, stapling, color, black/white). This is done automatically via the steadyPRINT Center but can also be handled manually. Any other function can be added subsequently by an administrator. This enables the user to browse for specific printer functions in the Agent if e.g. a printer with a punching function is required.

Printer Tags.

In addition to the printer functions, individual search items can be assigned by the administrator via the steadyPRINT Center. This way the search for a certain printer is considerably facilitated for the user (e.g. “labels”, “prescription”).

Rule-based Printing incl. Message Box.

Rule-based printing helps to considerably reduce the printing costs in companies by enforcing printing regulations. This way employees are “forced” to use specific functionalities of the printer infrastructure. Certain rules can thus determine that e-mails are printed monochrome or documents with more than 50 page are printed duplex.

In addition, the action “Message Box” has been integrated. The workflow designer has thus the option to issue notifications during the course of the workflow.

steadyPRINT Virtual Printer Driver (VPD) with new Features.

The Virtual Printer Driver 2 (VPD 2) has been improved in many areas. Among others, a new driver interface as well as an improved engine for merging different printer settings are available.

Multi-Admin Management incl. Journaling.

If several administrators are using the steadyPRINT Center at the same time, notifications of modified configurations are sent as of version 7.5. This way, the current status can be retrieved from the database.

The journaling function offers the possibility to retrace all modifications made to the steadyPRINT environment via the steadyPRINT Center. The administrator is provided an interface to compare the respective modifications.

Visibility of Printers.

If a printer is added via the steadyPRINT Center, its visibility can currently be restricted by the assignment of IP filters for location filtering and/or the deactivation of a printer assignment for certain assignment objects (user, computer, groups, organizational units). The new steadyPRINT version offers the possibility to explicitly configure printers as “visible” or “hidden” for specific user(groups). This is an additional option to show or hide printers during the connection process.

Cloud Storage.

In version 6.5 the vFlow printer has been introduced that allows individual workflows to be triggered with regard to a print job. vFlow has now been extended by the storage of documents in the cloud. Currently supported cloud providers are Citrix ShareFile and Microsoft OneDrive (others will follow).

Further new features of steadyPRINT 7.5.

Visibility of Printers.
If a printer is added via the steadyPRINT Center, its visibility can currently be restricted by the assignment of IP filters for location filtering and/or the deactivation of a printer assignment for certain assignment objects (user, computer, groups, organizational units). The new steadyPRINT version offers the possibility to explicitly configure printers as “visible” or “hidden” for specific user(groups). This is an additional option to show or hide printers during the connection process.
Connect printer for a single session
When connecting a printer via the steadyPRINT Agent, the user has the option to connect the selected printer for just one session. This function has to be activated by the administrator. When the Agent is restarted, the printer will be removed.
Print job as favorite
Within the steadyPRINT VPD print job overview, the user can mark jobs as favorites. They will appear in a separate list to be reprinted. Print jobs that are marked as favorites remain unaffected of the automatic cleaning of print jobs.
vName default printer
Version 7.5 now offers the central setting of vName default printers.
Microsoft Management Console for print server management
Now, the steadyPRINT Center also integrates the functions of the Windows-specific console for print server management. Currently missing functions are thus to be provided and integrated into steadyPRINT.
vPrinter printer overview
Apart from the provided printers, the vPrinter window now displays an overview of all printers available in the environment. The administrator, however, has to activate this area via the Agent profiles.

CENTRALIZED MANAGEMENT

Simple & clear: One tool for the complete administration of your print environment.

All in one console

Printer Assignments

Location-Based Printing

Default Printer

Maintenance Mode

Driver Management

Local Printers

User Self Service

Printing in small branch offices

Mobile Administration

All in one Console

Organize all tasks of your printer management centrally – intuitively and clearly structured. Map your company units by using a recursive folder structure. The steadyPRINT Center can be installed on different computers or servers as often as required. Manage the administrators’ permissions via the role-based permission system. The most important functions are available to the administrators in the new sP Center App.

Videos.

Printer Assignments

With steadyPRINT, you can create and manage Windows network printers, local printers as well as different driverless network printer assignments (via steadyPRINT VPD). Printer assignments can be created on the basis of users, groups, folders, organizational units, MAC addresses and computers (even Thin Clients). steadyPRINT enables separate printer assignments for terminal servers and workstations. Newly connected printers are immediately available to the user without any re-login.

The following assignment types are available:

Windows Network Printer: The Classic

Classic use of your Windows network printer with native printer drivers.

Local Printers: Local – but Central

Locally connected printers (e.g. via USB) can be inventoried and centrally maintained via the steadyPRINT Center.

Branch Office Printer: For Small Branch Offices

Local IP printers with native Windows printer drivers for small branch offices without print server. Central configuration, but without load on WAN connections during the printing process.

VPD vDirect Printer: Quite Normal – Only Better

Use the steadyPRINT Virtual Printer Driver to provide your network printers. The entire driver maintenance at the client will thus no longer be necessary. For the user, nothing will change.

VPD vPrinter: Driverless Universal Printer

Provide the user with only one printer that offers different possibilities (e.g. printing with a physical printer, batch print, PDF print, e-mail delivery etc.).

VPD vName Printer: The Solution for Special Systems

For all special systems (e.g. DATEV, ERP systems, HIS etc.). Relocation of the printer management from the special application to the clearly structured steadyPRINT management console.

VPD SecurePrint: Secure and Flexible Printing

Select the printer of your choice and use the app on your smartphone to start your print jobs. Stay flexible and avoid confidential documents being read at the printer.

VPD vFlow: More Than Printing!

Define individual workflows for your documents. PDF creation, storage, mail delivery and printouts with certain settings and many more – just with one click.

Video.

Adding printers and creating assignments

Location-Based Printing.

Define IP ranges for different departments or locations. An IP filter can be created on print server, folder or printer level. During a change of location, all printer connections and default printers are automatically and immediately adapted to the respective IP range.

Default Printers.

Define default printers for users, computers or groups and take advantage of the various possibilities the default printer management offers (e.g. by priority list, location, session period etc.).

Maintenance Mode.

In order to avoid any bottlenecks due to maintenance work, simply set your printers or print servers into the maintenance mode.

Driver Management.

Simply and centrally maintain all printer drivers in your environment via the steadyPRINT Center.

Local Printers.

Manage even local printers in a central way. You can install, uninstall or change local printers on workstations. For this, the computer does not even have to be switched on. steadyPRINT enables users and administrators to set local default printers not only on user but also on computer level.

You can also import a workstation as a local print server and share the connected printers with other users.

User Self Service.

The steadyPRINT Agent offers its users an overview of all printer connections. Thanks to the intuitive operation, printer connections can be added or removed and default printers can be set even without any knowledge of Windows. If IP areas are defined, the users are only shown printers of the IP range in which they are located.

The creation of Agent profiles allows user-, group- and computer-dependent settings for the display and the functions of the steadyPRINT Agent to be defined.

Videos.

Printing in small branch offices: steadyPRINT Branch Office Printer.

Centralized printer management – even for small branch offices without print server. With the steadyPRINT Branch Office Printer you can assign your printers as local IP printers with native Windows printer drivers. The configuration is done centrally – but the print job is not sent to the print server so that a high load on WAN connections can be avoided.

Mobile Administration: the sP Center App.

Manage your print environment at any time and anywhere. With the new sP Center App, administrators and users have the most important functions available on their smartphones.

DRIVERLESS PRINTING

The virtual printer driver steadyPRINT VPD.

steadyPRINT Virtual Printer Driver (VPD)

Network printers without driver maintenance

Driverless universal printer

Printer for special systems

Secure and flexible printing

steadyPRINT VPD.

steadyPRINT VPD is a virtual printer driver allowing printers in a company to be assigned to the client in a “driverless” way. steadyPRINT VPD offers a range of possible applications. From the provision of your network printers without tedious driver maintenance and the creation of specific printer assignments for special systems up to secure FollowMe Printing with the steadyPRINT App.

VPD vDirect.

Provide your network printers as vDirect Printers with the steadyPRINT Virtual Printer Driver. The entire driver maintenance at the client will thus no longer be necessary.

VPD vPrinter: Driverless Universal Printer.

Driverless printing for everyday use with different options for the user: Printing with a physical printer, batch print, PDF print, e-mail delivery etc. With the steadyPRINT vPrinter being a default printer, you will never have to think about which default printer you are going to use for which application. You decide on a case-by-case basis what you actually do with the printout.

Video.

steadyPRINT vPrinter, the driverless universal printer

VPD vName: The Solution for Special Systems incl. Reliability.

Assignment type for special applications (e.g. HIS, DATEV oder ERP systems) which is used to outsource the printer management from the special application. The administrator stores a printer that can have any name in special systems. In the background, however, steadyPRINT is used to assign different physical printers to this printer type for groups or users. A print server failure can easily be intercepted even with running applications as the printer name remains the same.

For further information, please refer to our vName datasheet.

Video.

steadyPRINT vName Printer for special systems (HIS, DATEV, ERP systems)

VPD SecurePrint: Secure and Flexible Printing.

Select the printer of your choice and use the app on your smartphone (iOS or Android) to start your print jobs. Stay flexible and avoid confidential documents being read at the printer.

Video.

Secure and flexible printing with the sP SecurePrint App

steadyPRINT vFlow.

Define your own workflows for your documents. For example PDF creation, storage, e-mail devlicery and printouts with certain settings and many more – all this with just one click.

steadyPRINT Guest Printing.

Give visitors the convenience of printing any document in your company. As soon as a visitor has logged into your company network with any end device, he/she can upload the desired documents via a website in the browser, select a printer and print. After printing, the data will automatically be deleted from the server.

Integrated PDF Printer.

With the PDF printer integrated in the steadyPRINT vPrinter, you can create a PDF document from your printout which can then be saved or direclty sent via e-mail. If required, you can store stationery. In addition, several PDF documents can be merged (PDF merge).

Video.

Merging PDF documents in the steadyPRINT Agent (PDF Merge)

Batch Print.

Each user can individually use one or several batches. Create, for example, a batch for invoices or first collect all documents that are used for a project or an appointment in a batch.

Store your printouts in a batch if you are on the move and have no physical printer within your reach. As soon as you get back to the office, you will be reminded of open print jobs which can then be printed.

Print History.

Each user can access their own print history. This way, you can reproduce what was printed during a certain period of time, view these documents and reprint them, if required.

MONITORING & REPORTING

Always up-to-date.

Everything at a Glance

Automatic Notification

Reports

Report Designer

Everything at a Glance.

On the one hand, steadyPRINT provides you with all default information of a printer, on the other hand, however, you can access manufacturer-specific data, e.g. toner or paper status, fixing stations, printed color or black-and-white pages, copies, maintenance or leasing data and many more. This data is clearly displayed in the dashboard.

Automatic Notification.

Define thresholds for warnings and errors. This way, you can for example have automated e-mails being sent to your purchase department at a certain toner level, inform the controlling department as soon as a specified number of printed pages is reached or notify your technical support of an error.

Reports.

Create reports that give you a simple overview of your environment. Have for example the average printing costs or devices with frequent error messages displayed. Reports can automatically be created and exported into different formats and sent by e-mail at set times. steadyPRINT offers a series of possible reports from the different categories.

Components
Inventory
Costs
Maintenance
Assignments
Others

Report Designer.

The report designer enables you to generate individual reports. Have all important data be displayed in the way you need it.

RELIABILITY & MIGRATION

Print Server Management.

Print Server Failure

Running Scripts in Case of a Failure

Reliability for Special Systems

Maintenance Mode

Automatic Notification

Print Server Migration

Printer-Migration

User Migration

Driver Migration

What Happens in Case of a Failure?

In case of a failure, steadyPRINT immediately and completely switches all printer connections from the master print server to the assigned backup print server without any delay. This way, all users are able to continue printing without any problem and to work effectively and efficiently.

Running Scripts in Case of a Failure.

In case of a print server failure, steadyPRINT is also able to run a script automatically so that even applications that are not based on Windows printer standards are supported.

Reliability for Special Systems.

Thanks to the virtual printer driver steadyPRINT VPD, you can benefit from the print server reliability even with special systems (e.g. HIS such as ORBIS or ERP systems). Only when a printing process is started, steadyPRINT checks whether the master- or backup print server is active and creates the respective connection. This way, a print server failure can easily be intercepted even with running applications as the printer name remains the same.

Maintenance Mode for Print Servers.

Use the maintenance mode to make changes at the print server without interrupting the users’ workflow.

Automatic Notification.

Generate automatic e-mail notifications for all responsible persons being informed immediately in case of a print server failure.

Print Server Migration.

steadyPRINT makes the print server migration easier than ever – even with different operating systems. All Windows server operating systems as of Windows server 2003 are supported, whether 32 or 64 bit.

Printer Migration.

steadyPRINT creates the printers on the new server (incl. name, driver, port, sharing and settings), takes over the users and transfers the printer sharings.

User Migration.

The user migration enables all printer connections of the users to be deleted from the old print server and switched to the new print server.

Driver Migration.

Group batches

Status: planned

The own batch can be shared for other users.

Monitoring Usability

Status: planned

Improvement of the usability during monitoring

New report: printer capacity

Status: planned

Features

Print Templates.

Printer Reliability.

Cost Centers.

Printer Features.

Printer Tags.

Rule-based Printing incl. Message Box.

steadyPRINT Virtual Printer Driver (VPD) with new Features.

Multi-Admin Management incl. Journaling.

Visibility of Printers.

Cloud Storage.

Further new features of steadyPRINT 7.5.

All in one Console

Videos.

Printer Assignments

Video.

Location-Based Printing.

Default Printers.

Maintenance Mode.

Driver Management.

Local Printers.

User Self Service.

Videos.

Printing in small branch offices: steadyPRINT Branch Office Printer.

Mobile Administration: the sP Center App.

steadyPRINT VPD.

VPD vDirect.

VPD vPrinter: Driverless Universal Printer.

Video.

VPD vName: The Solution for Special Systems incl. Reliability.

Video.

VPD SecurePrint: Secure and Flexible Printing.

Video.

steadyPRINT vFlow.

steadyPRINT Guest Printing.

Integrated PDF Printer.

Video.

Batch Print.

Print History.

Everything at a Glance.

Automatic Notification.

Reports.

Report Designer.

What Happens in Case of a Failure?

Running Scripts in Case of a Failure.

Reliability for Special Systems.

Maintenance Mode for Print Servers.

Automatic Notification.

Print Server Migration.

Printer Migration.

User Migration.

Driver Migration.

VPD 2

VPD 2 – Print Templates

Determination of Printer Functions

Cost centers

Cloud Storage

Multi Admin Management

Visibility of printers

Connect Printer for One Session

Mark Print Job as Favorite

vName Default Printer

MMC Console for Print Server Management

Journaling

If-Then-Else Status Query

Message Box

Printer Overview in the vPrinter

SAP Integration

SecurePrint box

New web dashboard

Print job monitoring with cost analysis

Group batches

Monitoring Usability

New report: printer capacity

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