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How to print PDF files from RPM Remote Print Manager

Submitted by Dave Brooks on Wed, 04/17/2013 - 22:14

In this article we explain how to print PDF files from our RPM Remote Print Manager® (RPM) product directly to a Windows printer. 

There are several reasons you may want to do this: Read more »

How to print PDF files from a command line to a Windows printer

Submitted by Dave Brooks on Wed, 04/17/2013 - 22:06

This article discusses one way to print PDF files to a specific Windows printer, on the command line. It's simple to select "Print" in a PDF viewer and select a printer. It's a little more challenging to do this from a background application like RPM Remote Print Manager®. In this article we show you how.

Foxit Reader is a PDF viewer by Foxit Software which displays and prints PDF files. This program has proven to be very popular with our customers --and there seems to be quite a bit of good press for it on the Web, as well. Read more »

INTELLIscribe: Third Party Integration

Submitted by Dave Brooks on Thu, 09/20/2012 - 19:09

One of our goals for all our products is for them to be part of a 3rd party solution, where that makes sense for the customer. We feel it is a better solution for everyone if the vendors cooperate, so we plan for that up front. Our INTELLIscribe product primarily acts as a Windows port monitor, taking your fully processed Windows print job and sending it to one or more printers on your network. Typically this is completely user-driven; when you print from your Windows application, INTELLIscribe kicks in and does its work. Read more »

LaserJet pioneer, Ray Smelek, laid to rest

Submitted by Dave Brooks on Thu, 09/20/2012 - 16:49

Last week my wife Susan and I were in Boise on business, and met up with friends over dinner. The husband had conducted a funeral service that day for Ray Smelek, the man who “brought H-P to Boise”. The wife knew him because she cut his hair for a number of years. Read more »

ExcelliPrint: Ignoring Boundaries

Submitted by Dave Brooks on Thu, 09/20/2012 - 15:42

As a product which has been on the market for a dozen years, in use by organizations literally worldwide, ExcelliPrint has a number of features which have grown out of real-world printing scenarios. One of these is the ability to ignore page boundaries. Read more »

GoDaddy outage

Submitted by Dave Brooks on Tue, 09/11/2012 - 14:34

On September 10, 2012, GoDaddy experienced a denial of service attack which affected probably millions of sites around the web. We host brooksnet.com at our facility here in Idaho Falls, but GoDaddy handles our name resolution, so many people trying to reach us were unable. Also, some of our downloads are handled by a domain which GoDaddy hosts. 

We share your frustration over this incident and wonder why some use their creative talents to do this sort of thing.

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Apology for network outages

Submitted by Dave Brooks on Wed, 01/18/2012 - 00:23

Please accept our apologies for being "down" several times over the past week.

We have experienced several network outages in the past week. Apparently there was a power surge somewhere in the network recently, which took out some switches and affected at least one router in the vicinity.

Our area network is usually super-reliable, but apparently our old monitoring company went out of business because we never heard from them. So we're giving a new one a try:  Read more »

Windows LPR problems sending large files

Submitted by Dave Brooks on Tue, 02/22/2011 - 19:51

We have received several reports recently from customers who are sending large files to RPM using the Windows LPR on the following systems: Read more »

Why RPM 4.5 is not supported on Windows 7

Submitted by Dave Brooks on Tue, 02/15/2011 - 03:14

We get the question from time to time about the previous version of our RPM Remote Print Manager® product—why is it not supported on Windows 7, Windows 2008, etc.? (Also Vista though that doesn't come up more than twice a year).

The answer you usually get from our support staff is that the licensing doesn't work on Windows past XP. It's true; there is an important API call used in the older version that is no longer supported. Read more »

eWeek keeps an eye on RPM Remote Print Manager

Submitted by Dave Brooks on Mon, 12/13/2010 - 12:51

We recently received a copy of the November 15, 2010 print edition of eWeek magazine. Thanks again to Larry Bouchie of TurboPR for sending it! On page 45 there's a write-up on the new RPM Remote Print Manager® Elite version 5.1 release, in their "products to watch" section. Read more »

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