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Connectivity Modules

The Solimar® Print Director Enterprise (SPDE) receives and sends data through many direct and network communication protocols. To host systems, SPDE appears as a native printer and receives print data for processing. To printers, SPDE appears as the host system sending appropriate print data and resources. The integrated connectivity modules of this system are listed below.

Solimar Print Director Enterprise

SPDE physically connects to and communicates with a wide range of mainframes, midrange hosts, networks, stand alone devices, printers, viewing stations, and archiving systems. A partial list of supported environments can be found below.

Input

SPDE Base System

Core system including basic input, emulation, output, and utility modules

BUS/TAG Channel

Receives 3211 data from mainframe systems

ESCON Channel

Receives IPDS via SNA server

File Queuer

Reads data from files on disk drives

FTP Queuer

Reads files from remote FTP servers

Parallel

Receives data from parallel centronics

Tape Input

Receives data via channel and provides 3480/3490E emulation

TCP/IP

Reads data from Internet, Unix lp, and Direct Port

Output

SPDE Base System

Core system including basic input, emulation, output, and utility modules

BUS/TAG Channel

Drives 3211 printers as S/370 channel

Disk Spooler

Writes data to files on disk drives

IPDS

Provides bi-directional communication with IPDS printers

Parallel

Sends data via parallel centronics

SCSI SDI

Sends data via shared disk interface to Xerox LPS printers

TCP/IP lpr

Sends data to Internet and Unix hosts via lpr, lpd and Direct Port

Trash Can

Deleted files, outputs nothing

Windows Spooler

Sends output directly to a Windows printer driver

Host Systems Supported

  • AS/400
  • AT&T
  • Bull
  • Data General
  • DEC
  • DOS
  • HP
  • IBM
  • Linux
  • Macintosh
  • NCR
  • Novell
  • Prime
  • RS/6000
  • Sequent
  • Sequoia
  • Stratus
  • Sun
  • System/3X
  • Tandem
  • Unisys
  • Unix
  • Wang
  • Windows

What Pel Hughes Printing said about us...

"Solimar's products have allowed us to dramatically improve our operations, the combination of cutting costs, plus adding new client offerings with incremental revenue, has allowed us the flexibility to do more things and expand faster."

Stuart Masson, Manager of Applications Development

Pel Hughes Printing

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