Overview

The Content Manager OnDemand server print function is the highest performance print option that is available to end-users of the system. The server print function is designed to allow many documents to be selected for reprint from the document list, without retrieving the documents to the user's PC. The Content Manager OnDemand server print function supports printing by using the Direct Server printing method, to submit a print job to a JES output class or by using the Infoprint Server printing method, to submit a print job to an IBM® Infoprint Server for z/OS® print queue.

When a user invokes the Content Manager OnDemand server print function, the client sends a print request to the Content Manager OnDemand server. The server sorts the documents by storage volume before retrieving them. After the documents are retrieved, a print job is submitted to a JES output class or to an Infoprint Server print queue, depending on the printing method that was specified for the Content Manager OnDemand server printer. When a user prints an AFP document, the resource group that was archived at the time that the document was loaded into the system is automatically retrieved and placed in the print data stream, to make sure that the document prints with the correct resources.

A Content Manager OnDemand server printer is an interface between the user and a server print device. Content Manager OnDemand supports printing to the JES spool or to a print queue supported by the Infoprint Server lp command. A server print device can be physically connected to the library server or it can be attached to some other system on the network. Printing to network printers requires Infoprint Server. The printing method is chosen when a server printer is added to Content Manager OnDemand, by specifying the string JES: (for the direct server printing method) or the name of an Infoprint Server print queue in the Server Queue Name field.