Base UB+ for Windows

Advanced Print Services and HELIOS Server Foundation

HELIOS Base UB+ for Windows provides a state-of-the-art print server for Windows, and a foundation for all other HELIOS products. It is well known for its reliability, performance, and ease-of-use, and incorporates the advanced server technologies developed by HELIOS over many years. These core HELIOS technologies include the service controller, printing system, remote administration, networking and imaging libraries, tools and more.

HELIOS Advanced Printing System

Provides a superior printing system to manage the printing needs of any size operation. The HELIOS printing system includes key features like custom spool directories, moving of jobs between queues, reprinting and archiving of jobs, full error feedback and control, etc. It is “lpr/lpd” compatible, supports PostScript, PDF and other jobs. Its features are available to all network clients. Windows queues are integrated via a gateway to HELIOS queues. Mac clients benefit from faster printing via the HELIOS exclusive TCP Bonjour printer driver.

Detailed print job accounting information is easily reviewed or exported.

The advanced printing system is tightly integrated with ImageServer, PDF HandShake, and PrintPreview to serve the widest range of prepress needs.

HELIOS mDNS Server (“Bonjour”) enables automatic discovery of computers, devices, and services on IP networks without the need to enter IP addresses or configure DNS servers.

Remote Administration using HELIOS Admin from Windows, Mac and UNIX clients is easy to use, allows managing server settings, printer queues, and logs, and creating printing workflows by cascading different queues  / options.

Scalability is built-in, from small sites with only a few clients to enterprise sites with the most demanding requirements.

HELIOS supports a variety of server platforms with equal feature sets, identical administration, and the same release dates. This gives customers the flexibility to choose the right server for their needs, budgets, and future plans.

Product Highlights

Server Installation

• Fast, menu-driven installation, easy installation for system administrators
  
• Extensive documentation in printed, PDF, and online manuals

Server Administration

• Remote server administration from Windows, Mac, and UNIX via HELIOS Admin over TCP/IP and HTTP
  
• Manages printers, server settings, TCP/IP access lists, logs, etc.
  
• Remote server file browsing & editing
  
• RSA 1024-bit encrypted passwords
  
• HELIOS Services, “srvutil” front end to manage different services
  
• Central start/stop HELIOS scripts, location for additional custom scripts
  
• UNIX compatible “dt” CLI tools for file management (mv, rm, cp, ls, ...)
  
• “authutil” tool to look up accounts and verify passwords, users and groups 

Server Fail Safety

All HELIOS services run as separate processes per job or session, with corresponding user permissions. All services are managed and monitored by the HELIOS Service Controller.

• Automatic reporting of problems
  
• Automatic service restart if required
  
• If a process fails, other processes are not affected
  
• Allows easy integration of third-party services and scripts
  
• Integrated into Windows Services 

HELIOS Advanced Printing System

Supports PostScript, PDF and other jobs with many features:

• “lpr/lpd” compatible
  
• Error and hold queues for all queues to reprint and monitor the jobs done
  
• Print job accounting
  
• Remote LPR printers
  
• 64-bit jobs, no 2 GB job size limit
  
• Printing via TCP/IP stream (socket)
  
• Print to disk including compression
  
• Time queue to specify printing times
  
• Balance queue for load balancing
  
• Clone queue for multiple workflows
• Print to Windows SMB/CIFS printers
• Print to AppleTalk PAP printers (requires Windows Server 2000/2003)
• Print to Create PDF queue (requires PDF HandShake UB+)
• Print to PDF bitmap proof queue (requires PrintPreview UB+) 

Server Auditing & Monitoring

Live monitoring and tracing of the internal activity of any HELIOS service and/or individual session. This allows looking into a process to isolate/identify problems. It complements network and system call tracing.

HELIOS Update Installer

Each HELIOS file has a version number managed by our version control system.

• Automatic download of updates
  
• Automatic installation of updates
  
• Option to roll back installed updates

• Windows local and AD/PDC users, groups and passwords are supported
  
• Enforced security, sessions run as authenticated user
  
• Windows Services panel for HELIOS
  
• Windows Unicode/UTF-8 support
  
• Windows file permissions
  
• Windows Shares are supported
  
• Windows ACLs permissions support
  
• Windows 32-bit and 64-bit support
  
• Windows event logging support
  
• Windows printer to HELIOS gateway
  
• Windows NTFS file event driver for optional Script Server hot folder workflows via ImageServer UB+

HELIOS mDNS Server (“Bonjour”) 

• Supports multiple network interfaces
• Proxy for non-Bonjour devices
• Tools and API included

Migration to other platforms

All installed HELIOS products and settings can be transferred to any supported platform.

Flexible Licensing Scheme

The server license is tied to a specific machine and a certain number of users. 5 or 20 user server base licenses are available. User expansions are available in steps of additional 10 or 100 users. Optional maintenance agreements: Internet Updates, Software Upgrade Service, cold spare licenses.