spinflow1

spinflow2

Application for printing houses, created while working for NCDC – Nordic Consulting and Development Company (www.ncdc.pl). Custom solution, specifically for large format HP printers with Spinjet add-on for duplex printing

Features included:

• Multiple input queues for different systems and users.
• TIFF and HP RTL native file formats.
• Input via Hot Folder, Manually selected file, TCP/IP-RAW, TCP/IP-LPD, FTP.
• Output via TCP/IP-RAW, Windows driver, TCP/IP-LPD, Archive Only.
• Parallel job receiving, processing and printing, using many HP printers simultaneously.
• Set-ups for different job types: Work & Turn, Single Sided, Work & Tumble, Sheet Work.
• Sequential printing of each side to HP ensuring print order is correct.
• Wildcards page matching.
• Auto centering of the front and back impositions.
• Auto rotation of jobs to save paper (autofit/best fit option).
• “n” Jobs saved for fast reprint.
• Ink Reduction.
• Centering of impositions onto paper.
• Onscreen thumbnail views for fast and accurate job recognition.
• Transparent scalable preview for double-sided adjustment view and correction.
• Web-based user server access.
• Load Balancing: Detects and balance printers workload.

Application was created in the Microsoft .NET technology. Other technical features: embedded web server (Cassini), HP-RTL to TIFF format parser, geometric operations on large bitmaps (up to ~500 MB), a Windows NT Service with attachable web & desktop GUI.