Print To File

Print Distributor lets you write your raw print files out to a folder automatically without any pop-ups or user intervention. This lets you keep an archive copy of all your printed output exactly as it was originally produced. You can also process these files further, converting PostScript to PDF format for instance.

The dynamic file naming feature of Print Distributor lets you build up a folder structure and file name based on information from the print job. Include details such as the name of the user who printed the document, details from the date and time or even the original document name.

As an example if you want to archive all prints to a group of folders based on the name of the person who prints, the year, month and day and finally have the print file name include a serial number you could enter a path C:\Archive\?UN?\?YE?\?MO?\?DA?\?SN?.prn

In this example the text ?UN? gets converted automatically into the users name and ?YE?, ?MO? and ?DA? get converted into the year, month and day. Finally ?SN? gets converted into a unique serial number so your print file doesn't get overwritten by the next job. If any of these folders specified don't exist then they get created on the fly leaving you with a folder structure which looks like the image to the left.

The full range of fields includes the date broken down into minutes, hours, the day of the week, the day of the month, month and year. Also the size of the print document, number of pages, the job ID, a unique serial number, computer name, data type, printer driver name, priority, notify name and finally all or extracts of the document name.

We can even provide scripts to extract information from the content of certain print file types or from another source such as a database.

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