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Configure Secure&Pickup Printing

With Secure&Pickup Printing (also called Follow(to)Me or Pull Printing), the user does not print to a specific printer but to the Secure&Pickup Printing queue. The output job is kept in the queue until the user authenticates himself at the printer and, this way, releases the output job to this printer.

A device-independent system for Secure&Pickup Printing is the Central Document and Device Server (CDDS) from Genius Bytes. PLOSSYS Output Engine provides an integration of CDDS. Via CDDS, printers from Kyocera, Lexmark, RICOH, Samsung and others can be connected. For more information about the supported manufacturers, refer to the website of Genius Bytes.

Manufacturers such as RICOH also provides proprietary Secure&Pickup Printing systems (for example, FlexRelease from RICOH) which could be connected to PLOSSYS Output Engine using IPP commands. For the IPP commands supported by the seal-ipp-checkin service in PLOSSYS Output Engine, refer to Supported IPP Commands.

Connecting Genius Bytes CDDS to PLOSSYS Output Engine

Genius Bytes CDDS and the clients on the printers are normally installed and configured by Genius Bytes or the customer.

For the connection to PLOSSYS Output Engine, an External Job Provider has to be installed in CDDS with the following settings in Connection Info:

  • IPP Provider URL specifies the URL for accessing the Secure&Pickup Printing queue. The URL has the following format:

    http://<plossys_5_server>:631/printers/<pickup_queue_name>

    with

    <plossys_5_server>: Name or IP address of the Output Engine server

    <pickup_queue_name>: Name of the Secure&Pickup Printing queue

    Hint - case-sensitive

    Note that the queue name is case-sensitive!

  • Printer Name Property specifies how the address of the actual printer is configured in printer.connection in the printer configuration in PLOSSYS Output Engine. When a user wants to release a job at a specific printer, CDDS only sends the server name and the IP address of this printer to PLOSSYS Output Engine due to it does not know the Output Engine queue name of this printer. PLOSSYS Output Engine searches for the queue having the passed information configured in printer.connection and moves the output job from the Secure&Pickup Printing queue to the determined queue.

    The following values can be used with PLOSSYS Output Engine:

    • IPADDRESS: The IP addresses of the printers are configured in printer.connection of the Output Engine queues.

    • FULLNAME: The FQDNs of the printers are configured in printer.connection of the Output Engine queues.

Configuration with easyPRIMA

In PLOSSYS Output Engine, a queue becomes a Secure&Pickup Printing queue by specifying pickup: true in the configuration, refer to Printer Configuration File.

When using easyPRIMA for installing the output queues, the queue to be used for Secure&Pickup Printing is marked by setting the optional queue parameter Pickup Queue.

For more information, refer to easyPRIMA.

Advanced Configuration

The following key can be configured in PLOSSYS Output Engine concerning the Secure&Pickup Printing:

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