Print Spooler, Print Job and Output Management Glossary of Terms

Term	Definition
Command Line Interface	The command line interface allows a user to perform tasks by typing commands on a console screen. It usually appears just as text on an otherwise blank screen. UNIX/Linux have command line interfaces and many tasks in Windows can also be performed through this type of interface.
Confirmation of Delivery	The process of sending a print job and communicating bi-directionally with a printer to verify that the last page of the job has landed in the output tray, not just the printer buffer.
Destination(s)	Printers (local or production) and/or email, fax, or web servers.
Local Printing	Printing that is done directly to the printer device and does not pass through another machine or server along the way.
lp	The command used in UNIX/Linux to spool print jobs.
Output Management	A general-purpose, enterprise-quality system service designed to assist in the effective and productive management of all forms of system-produced output, whatever the source. Output Management solutions monitor the system activities and perform the core tasks associated with document delivery, i.e. job scheduling, queue management, security, job status, delivery confirmation, and printer administration. The Output Management solution must be aware of all relevant system elements, queues, printers, fax servers, email servers, pagers, web servers, document archive systems, electronic forms solutions, document types, and user authorization and access levels.
PJL	Printer Job Language was developed by HP to provide a method for switching printer languages at the job level and for selecting printer options and reading status back from the printer.
Print Job Archiving	There are three levels of document archiving. Short Term Archive, print jobs are held after printing within the Main Status screen of OM Plus. Typically these jobs can be set up to automatically purge within a 0-27 hours time frame. Medium Term Archive, upon purging a job from the Main Status Screen in OM Plus the job can automatically be moved to the OM Plus Archive Module for later retrieval from within the OM Plus environment. Long Term Archive, provided by RM Plus module in a centralized, secure repository for jobs from many different types of systems. Print jobs are indexed for future, easy retrieval of archived print jobs and reports.
Print Server	A print server is a device that accepts print data in one or more network printing protocols and outputs the data to its attached printer(s).
Print Spooler	A print spooler stores print jobs to be printed when the printer is available.
Printer daemon	A printer process running without user interaction.
Remote Printing	Printing where a print job will pass from one server to another before actually being transferred to the printer device. In Windows environments, you may print directly from your PC to a printer (that would be local printing) or you could define a shared printer for remote printing.
Report Bundling	Report bundling is a filtering process that collects and holds jobs for a certain user/s until all specified jobs have been collected. Then all jobs are bundled/knitted together and delivered as one print job.
Report Distribution	Report Distribution is the process of searching a print job for certain parameters and then carving out sections of the job based on those parameters. This is a simple way to create a “sub report” print job using print spooler software without doing complicated programming inside an application.
Shared Printer	A shared printer is one, which is defined typically on a Windows server and the Windows client then creates a connection to this shared printer. This means the document will actually spool and print through the server’s spooling system.
SNMP	Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is the protocol governing network management and the monitoring of network devices. It is not necessarily limited to TCP/IP networks.