Barr Host Communications Suite is our complete Windows-based print management solution. Using our select hardware and software options, you can customize the print server to suit your unique printing and document management needs. With it, you can direct files from mainframes, UNIX hosts, AS400s, and Windows-based programs to multiple destinations, including network printers, as well as other hosts.
Barr Host Communications Suite comes with many standard features. You can also purchase software options that provide additional functionality. Contact a sales representative to learn more about our optional modules.
Simplifies print and document distribution by centrally managing your output from one location
Helps to ensure that all printers are being used to their maximum potential by recording accounting data for completed print transactions
Automates your organization�s production printing through a built-in scheduling system
Receives files from a variety of sources, including Windows programs, TCP/IP hosts, mainframes, UNIX machines, and network directories*
Routes files to multiple destinations, including network printers, network directories, storage devices, and data transform software*
Supports the following formats: ASCII, EBCDIC, AFP, Adobe PDF and PostScript, Xerox Metacode and LCDS, and PCL
Drives an unlimited number of printers
Supports viewers for AFP, Adobe PDF and PostScript, PCL, Text, and Xerox Metacode and LCDS
Controls user access and provides personalized settings for different operators
Supports unattended operation
Processes jobs independently of one another with no arbitrary limits on the number of concurrent tasks
Performs automatic load balancing (or load sharing) by distributing new jobs evenly among the available printers
Supports encryption and compression to enhance and secure your data transmission between BHCS Servers
Manages and stores host resources (FCB, UCS)
Manages forms overlays (EBCDIC or ASCII files)
Supports electronic forms, replacing pre-printed forms
Provides multiple-copy printing
Displays real-time status for each printer
Reprints and restarts at any location within the job
Prints nonstop during spool viewing and reprinting
*May require the use of options.
RJE – Transfers files between mainframes and remote locations
NJE – Connects to IBM mainframes and exchanges jobs between host and network
TCP/IP – Captures print from TCP/IP hosts
BARR/PRINT to EPS – Captures Xerox print files from the mainframe and sends them to network-attached Xerox DocuPrint Enterprise Printing Systems
BARR/PRINT SPLITTER – Splits large jobs and sends them to multiple printers
TRANSFORM – Processes and transforms PDF, PS, AFP, PCL, and Xerox Line Data (DJDE) and Metacode files
TOOLS – Allows you to view and reprint your PCL and Xerox Line Data (DJDE) and Metacode files