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

Server Administration

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.

HELIOS Advanced Printing System

Supports PostScript, PDF and other jobs with many features:

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.

Excellent Windows Integration

HELIOS mDNS Server (“Bonjour”) 

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.


The EtherShare and PCShare (AFP and SMB/CIFS) file services are not available, instead the Windows built-in SMB/CIFS and AFP file servers are used. The following table shows the supported software installation and license requirements for HELIOS products:

 

 

HELIOS Base UB+ must be installed

HELIOS Base UB+ license is required (must be purchased)

WebShare File Server

WebShare Web Server

ImageServer

PDF HandShake

PrintPreview

 

 

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Features & Benefits

Ease of Use

  • Easy to install, administer, use
  • Remote server administration from Windows, Mac, and UNIX

Print Server Features

  • LPD/LPR compatible and CLI tools
  • Job management via “drag and drop”
  • Print spooler for Mac OS 9 & OS X clients, via PAP or TCP/IP
  • Print spooler for Windows clients, gateway from Windows spoolers to HELIOS queues
  • Flexible output options:
    Remote LPR, TCP/IP-stream, Print to Disk, SMB/CIFS, AppleTalk PAP, Time Schedules, Job Balance, and Clone queues, with extensive print job logging and accounting
  • Error and Hold/Reprint queues
  • Create PDF option: PDF HandShake
  • Proofing option: PrintPreview

Server Features

  • Process auditing and tracing tools
  • UNIX “dt” CLI tools (mv, rm, cp, ls, ...)

Flexibility

  • All major Windows platforms
System Requirements

HELIOS Base Server

  • One of the following server systems:
    Windows 2000/2003 Server
    Windows XP
    Windows x64 on XP and 2003
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  • 64 MB RAM; 4 MB per active client
  • Perl 5.8.x (www.activestate.com)
    • TCP/IP network connection, optional AppleTalk via Windows 2000 / 2003
    • Optional: Java for HELIOS Admin client

Clients

  • Windows with SMB/CIFS
  • Mac OS 8.1-10.5
  • UNIX with Remote LPR

HELIOS products using Base

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