Secure Release Print

Vasion Print (formerly PrinterLogic)'s Secure Release Print features ensure that documents are only printed when the user is physically present at the printer to release them. This security feature reduces the risk of exposing sensitive information. The Secure Release solution provides the following features:

• Pull Print
• Direct Secure Release
• Offline Secure Release Printing

Key Points

• All options hold the print jobs in a virtual print queue.
• Pull Print uses a one-to-many relationship, allowing print job release to any pull print-enabled printer.
• Direct Secure Release and Offline Secure Release Print (OSRP) use a one-to-one relationship allowing print job release only to the selected printer.
• All options require authentication through an Identity Provider (IdP) or LDAP to view and release held jobs.

Pull printers deploy and install like regular printer objects, and print jobs hold automatically. Enable the Allow Pull Print jobs to be released to this printer on any printers you want to print held jobs.

When you print a job to a Secure Release printer, you are prompted to hold or print the job. Held jobs remain in the workstation queue for that printer object until the user who sent the print job releases it at the printer.

Offline Secure Release Print follows the same structure and process as Direct Secure Release, but a copy of the print job waits in the queue on a machine designated as a Service Client. When the user goes to release the print job, if the workstation is offline or logged out, the job prints the copy from the Service Client.

Released jobs typically print within 15 seconds, but several factors impact print time, like the size of the job, the type of printer, and the number of jobs released from the queue. When releasing held jobs, the mobile device sends jobs sequentially, which can be slower.

The topics in this section guide you through configuring these solutions in your environment.

Manage Held Jobs

Release Tab

The Release Tab provides an interface where administrators can quickly release or delete held print jobs without walking to or remoting into a workstation or printer.

Purging

Purge settings define the time active and held print jobs remain in the queue before being automatically cleared. Set purge times in the Admin Console in the Purging section on Tools Settings Printing, then select Save. Purge times support a minimum of one hour.