Configuration instructions to print documents from your XM Fax Cloud solution by using the MFP Printing Tool for XM Fax Cloud (provided by LNB Solutions Inc).
The MFP Printing Tool for XM Fax Cloud
The MFP Printing Tool for XM Fax Cloud allows incoming faxes from the XM Fax Cloud solution to be directly printed on site on any TCP/IP based devices (basic or multifunction printers) of any brand – without having to use an external cloud printing service.
How does it work?
The MFP Printing Tool for XM Fax Cloud is designed to poll a dedicated repository (folder) to get XM Fax Cloud metadata files and interpret them in order to print the corresponding fax image documents on various printers (according to a set of custom printing rules).
- A fax is received on XM Fax Cloud and the incoming routing table redirects it to a Folder Destination that was specifically created for printing through the MFP Printing Tool for XM Fax Cloud.
- The fax is routed (in the form of an image document and an XML metadata file) to the remote location that is configured in the Folder Destination.
- The fax metadata file is detected by the MFP Printing Tool for XM Fax Cloud (which is polling the same folder).
- The MFP Printing Tool for XM Fax Cloud goes through a list of configurable printing rules and accordingly redirects the document for printing on the selected device.
Configuration planning
This article provides all steps to perform this configuration.
Configuring the Tool to work with your XM Fax solution
To get it, see MFP Printing Tool for XM Fax Cloud (3rd Party Application from LNB Solutions).
Managing printing rules
List of Rules
The printing rules are always evaluated from the top to the bottom of the list; they can be reordered.
As soon as a match is found, the fax is printed according to the corresponding rule instructions, and the printing process ends (i.e. the next rules are not evaluated).
Rule Type and Rule Criteria
If you set the Rule Type to * (asterisk), the rule will simply print the file on the specified printer, without evaluating any conditions. This can be useful if you have only one rule to print all faxes on a single printer – or if you need a bottom rule that prints all faxes that did not match any of the other rules.
In all other cases, the Rule Criteria can be set to return a match when the fax property selected in Rule Type either Contains or Equals the specified Rule Value.
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