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Advanced Job Finishing
Job Finishing is the process of manipulating
and formatting a print job, within a printer driver, prior
to the job being printed. The Job Finishing function occurs
after the application has submitted the print job to the driver/spooling
process. Common Job Finishing features include booklet printing,
scaling, multiple copies, collation, reverse ordering and handouts
(N-up).
Software Imaging modular driver toolkits
incorporate some of the most advanced Job Finishing features
available in the industry, delivering highly sophisticated
and customized print layout formatting.
Taking Full Advantage of Devices
OEMs may
want to enable their users to create brochures or do short-run
print jobs on the printer. Features such as "scaled booklet
printing" available
from within the driver job finishing function make this
extremely easy. Users simply specify that they wish to
create a booklet and the driver then does all of the required
page ordering, scaling and layout transparently. If the
printer has a binding function then this can also be easily
automated without any additional user intervention. The user
simply prints from their desktop and a bound booklet is automatically
created. Hardware finishing functions can also
be accessed in a similar seamless way.
Powerful, Flexible and Extensible
The Job Finishing systems provided by
Software Imaging as part of the Sorcerer and CDA DDKs are highly
extensible and very flexible. CDA Job Finishing is targeted
at the needs of the "intelligent" PDL device and
Sorcerer at the needs of the raster device.
Adding Value
As well as the standard Job Finishing
functions provided by both systems, OEM developers can also
develop specific call-back functions to allow for the drawing
of borders, overlays and watermarks. Dialogs may also be added
to physical pages where end-user instructions need to be included
in order to support functions such as manual duplex.
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