Multi-client capability (database profiles)
Manage several print environments in the steadyPRINT Center (e.g. of different customers) or comfortably switch from a test environment to a production environment.
steadyPRINT 7
The new features of the current version.
VPD vFlow: One printer, many actions.
Define your own workflows so that different actions can be processed at the same time with just one printout – PDF creation, storage, e-mail delivery and printouts with certain settings and many more.
Possible actions:
PDF processing, page range, watermark / background image, if…then…else…, printing, e-mail delivery, save to SecurePrint batch, save to default batch
Printing for your visitors.
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.
Report Designer.
The report designer enables you to generate individual reports. Have all important data be displayed in the way you need it.
New 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.
The new steadyPRINT Agent in a modern tile design offers its users a better overview and new functions.
Mobile Administration: the sP Center App.
Manage your print environment at any time and anywhere. The new sP Center App provides administrators with the most important functions via their smartphones.
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.
Further new features of steadyPRINT 7.
CENTRALIZED MANAGEMENT
Simple & clear: One tool for the complete administration of your print environment.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Automatic Notification
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.
If driver conflicts occur during the migration from a 32 bit system to a 64 bit system, steadyPRINT provides a range of alternative drivers on the target system. This range can be adopted automatically for all relevant cases.
ROADMAP
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