Some newer printers with PostScript Level 3 compliant Raster Image Processing can natively support PDF documents, but there are still many printers in business use that only support PostScript Level 2 that cannot print PDF documents directly. For example, paychecks and invoices are usually printed as scheduled batch jobs. However, some reports require printing directly from the report server. PDF is a popular output format for business reports and is printable from viewer software such as Adobe Reader. Two types of security are supported: Basic and Digest.
Even though the fax and printer server that the users see can both use a single CUPS server.įor information on setting up CUPS or Windows IPP print servers and how to connect network printers to them, refer to the CUPS or Windows IPP software vendor documentation. Note that the Administration page makes the distinction between a fax and a printer server in the UI, so that users can pick one or the other or both at runtime. The fax set up requires this plugin to the CUPS server on the operating system. To send fax from BI Publisher, you must set up Common Unix Printing Service (CUPS) and the fax4CUPS extension, to enable connection to your fax server from BI Publisher. In this print server scenario, the print server can run on any operating system. The IPP server can be the printer itself, which is the easiest option, but if the printer does not natively support IPP, you can set up a print server that does support IPP (such as CUPS) and connect BI Publisher to the print server and then the print server to the printer.
Regardless of whether BI Publisher is running on Linux, Unix, or Windows, the printer destination can be any IPP server.