PDF Printing

The PDF Printing Quickset enables you to apply mostly any ELP rules to PDF files which are printed through a Windows PCL5 driver where the characters cannot be searched afterwards. As W-ELP does not OCR any graphical data stream the principle solution for that is:

The PDF file should not be rasterized through a Windows driver using e.g. Adobe Acrobat but send directly to the W-ELP activated print queue. The W-ELP printing process does recognize the PDF file format and will analyze and print it through the build-in functions.

The first steps of using the Quickset are as follows:

1. Generate a new queue:
   Name it WELP_PDF2PCL and share it under the same name. Use any PCL 5 driver, color or black/white. stethos recommends using the Ricoh PCL5c driver. For the port use the NUL one. Some OS might also allow COM1: or COM2: etc. Note it is very important, that this port is NOT used by any other Windows Queue!
2. Activate that new queue in the W-ELP Control Center Install tab.
3. Make sure you have now minimum 2 Queues activated, the WELP_PDF2PCL named queue and the queue receiving the PDF files.
4. It is recommended to set for testing both Queues to NOT delete printed jobs. Queue – Settings – Enhanced-tab.
5. Open the both queues to see what is printed (Print Jobs).
6. Install please the freeware tool: PDF-XChange Editor.

Minimum requirement: Windows PowerShell 5

For further details about the steps of installation and configuration of the solution, how to test it, the resulting files of the process, how to apply rules to the printing process and troubleshooting please download this user guide.

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