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HELIOS reliability, versatility, speed, and automation

  • Advanced printing system
  • PostScript and PDF
  • Preflight, proof, printing workflow
  • ICC color management
  • TCP/IP Bonjour printing
  • Highest efficiency/productivity

 

Efficient print production is essential to so many companies, from small ad agencies to the multi-national printing giants. The HELIOS advanced printing system provides the reliability, versatility, speed, and automation that are crucial to their success. HELIOS server solutions manage the digital prepress workflow, from the design, image management, and document production stage, through the various proofing stages, until the final color-matched print job is sent to the RIP.

 

The HELIOS advanced printing system provides a superior printing system to manage the printing needs of any size operation. It 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, and supports PostScript, PDF and other jobs. Its features are available to all network clients. Detailed print job accounting information is easily reviewed or exported.

 

HELIOS print queue output can print to a physical printer or RIP, create and preflight a PDF, generate a proof including separations and an ICC color-matched composite, and queue jobs for printing according to a date and time schedule. “Balance Groups” perform load balancing. “Clone queues” duplicate jobs for simultaneous processing or repurposing.

 

In addition, using the “Hold Queue” feature, sequential job processing can be arranged. So if a proof is approved, the original PostScript can be moved to the final output queue. Or, if a PDF is created and passes its preflight test, it can automatically move to a queue for proofing or printing. In addition, “Print to Disk”, “Print Preview”, and “Create PDF” queues support a “Notify Program”, whereby a script or program is called for post processing.

 

HELIOS print queues are set up using HELIOS Admin to select the connection type and configure the settings. It is simple to define settings for publishing each print queue to Mac and Windows network clients, as well as for OPI image replacement, and ICC color management.

 

Key features include:

  • Supports PostScript, PDF, and other jobs
  • Error and hold queues for all queues   to reprint and monitor completed jobs
  • Print job accounting
  • LPR/LPD compatible
  • Remote LPR printers – LPR Bonjour
  • 64-bit print 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 AppleTalk PAP printers
  • Print to Windows SMB/CIFS printers
  • Print to Create PDF queue
  • Print to PDF bitmap proof queue
  • Sequential processing
  • Automatic post-processing scripts
  • Input via print queues or hot folders
  • Several levels of administrative rights

 

HELIOS Admin can also be used by Mac and Windows users to monitor and manage their print jobs. Job accounting details are a click away, and Create PDF output and Print Preview proofs can be opened with another click.

 

Other advanced features include:

  • Automatic preflight inspection of PDFs for compliance with requirements is easily configured, and is fully compatible with Adobe Acrobat preflight profiles.
  • A complete ICC color management system is built-in. It can perform on-the-fly color matching during the printing process. It can also generate color-matched proofs to accurately preview the final output.
  • HELIOS mDNS Server (“Bonjour”) for easy discovery and setup of printers on IP networks (no need for AppleTalk)
  • Mac clients benefit from faster printing via the HELIOS exclusive TCP Bonjour printer driver.

 

Automation options include the “pipelining” of print jobs via hold queues, and the post-processing of jobs via “Notify Scripts”. In addition, Script Server and Tool Server can be used to integrate any other automated workflow options.

 

The reliability, versatility, speed, and automation of HELIOS print server solutions makes them ideal for printing operations of any size.