The invention relates to a digital printer for printing on separate pages of media, the printer including:. The platform provides designers with the necessary support data on the virtual component blocks and allows designers to perform integration and connectivity verification as well as basic functional verification. In response to a determination to fulfill the request locally, the request is delegated to local CIM object manager functionality to obtain result data, e. If an error occurs on the primary database then the database can be reverted back to a point in time prior to the error by replacing source database files with snapshot files.