Print Spooler and Print Spooling Software

OM Plus-Output Management Software
Print Spooler, Print Failover, Print Spooling Software

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If documents are lost, not delivered correctly or in a timely manner, customer satisfaction and business processes suffer.  The print spooler capabilities OM Plus provide dramatically more functionality than UNIX lp print spooler or the Windows print spooler and improves the document delivery process.

OM Plus makes print spooler software obsolete because it receives documents from a variety of systems in a variety of formats. This innovative print spooler software takes the place of the standard print spooler and manages the reliable delivery of the documents from virtually any host system to multiple destination types including printers, fax machines, email accounts, Web sites, and Intranet sites without any changes to your enterprise application. By using print failover within our print spooler software. OM Plus ensures that your documents will get printed, every time or notify you if they don’t.The application prints and the OM Plus print spooler functions complete the rest.

Increased Help Desk Productivity through Simplified, Centralized Control of the Print Spooler
OM Plus print spooler monitors all system printing activity, is aware of all queues, printers, users authorities, e-mail and fax servers, and more.  It performs job scheduling, queue management, job status, and allows you to see your entire enterprise print environment from a single screen.  The OM Plus print spooler makes the task of providing help on your users’ print job problems much simpler than using the O/S print spooler and utilities. You can reduce or eliminate calls from users who are trying to track critical print jobs by proactively notifying the user of print job execution.  You can even allow the end users to track their own print jobs sent to the print spooler via OM Plus’ print spooler HTML interface.  OM Plus print spooler saves both administrators and users time, paper, and effort and can reduce print related help desk activity by up to 50%.

Confirmed Print Job Delivery
You know the application sent the print job. But are you sure it actually printed? All of it? Each page? Will the business process break down if the job did not print so you want to know right away? The OM Plus print spooler knows and will proactively notify you if a delivery did not occur.

Intelligent Print Job Routing
Do your users submit jobs to printers that are not appropriate for the task?  Do they print non-business critical jobs on your color lasers?  The OM Plus print spooler can analyze the meta-data of the job, or the job text itself and make printer spooling and routing decisions based on business rules so the appropriate or approved printer is utilized.

Printer Load Balancing and Failover
Do you need to shorten printing execution windows? The OM Plus print spooler can automatically split large print jobs and route them across multiple printers for improved throughput and load balancing.  Is your primary printer being serviced or did it just run out of paper? The OM Plus print spooler will automatically redirect the job to an available printer that can finish the job and notify you of the new destination.

Increased Security and Auditability for Compliance
Do you need to control access to certain print queues, devices, or documents? Do you need to know who printed what, and where?   The OM Plus print spooler security features control user access to print functions, documents, and devices at either the individual or group levels. In addition, it has comprehensive audit logs that track every print function and print spooler process showing destination use, individual and group accounting, and more.  If you need to know who printed what and where, for auditing or compliance purposes or you do print cost charge backs, the print spooler functionality of OM Plus tracks the jobs for you. 

A More Robust Solution than O/S Print Spoolers
Are you frustrated with the limitations of the lp print spooler utility in UNIX or the Windows Server spooling system?  Do you need to have more control and management capability over your enterprise print environment?  You don’t have to put up with underpowered print spooler utilities. Whether you run SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft or virtually any server or mainframe- based application; the OM Plus print spooler is the advanced print spooling and print job management tool for you.  Our print spooler is robust, easy to use and economical. The OM Plus print spooler includes over 100 print spooler management features not found in your O/S print spooler like, re-print, re-direct, page range printing, viewing, scheduling, and many more print spooler functions.

All This Without Changes to Your Application Being Required
The OM Plus print spooler receives documents from a variety of systems in a variety of formats. It manages the delivery of the documents to printers, e-mail or fax servers, and the web without any changes to your enterprise application. The OM Plus print spooler replaces or co-exists with your native print spooling system, which means, the application just prints and OM Plus does the rest.

Runs On All Popular Platforms
The printer spooler technology of OM Plus will take the place of the print spooler software on all popular server operating systems including commercial Unix, Microsoft, and Linux/open-source servers. The OM Plus print spooler is compliant with most ERP applications, including SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle, QAD, and more. OM Plus is robust, efficient, and simple to install and run and easily replaces the native print spooler in your O/S. 

OM Plus Print Spooler Spec Sheet (pdf)---Includes a complete OM Plus print spooler feature list