Using Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPS Manager
IPDS Sessions
In general, IPDS sessions begin with the first IPDS command that an IPDS device receives and end when either an IPDS command explicitly ends the session or when the
When IPS Manager starts, it informs the host that it supports the MID command. When the host operator sends a print job to the printer, the host will initiate a session for the job. If a different job is sent to the printer from a different application, the second application will attempt to initiate a new session. The printer will not accept the second session, and will make an appropriate response, depending on the acknowledgement type required by the host. The host application or operator can then retry creating a new session at some later time. Although only a single session can be processed at a time, the ability to accept sessions from different sources makes use of the printer more flexible than if the printer had to be dedicated to a single host application.
Background Forms
Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPDS supports both creating background forms from IPDS jobs and merging IPDS jobs with background forms created either from IPDS or other PDLs. For more information, refer to Using Background Forms in the Xerox FreeFlow® Print Servers
Barcode Symbology
Xerox FreeFlow® Print Servers support printing of all IPDS Bar Code Object Content Architecture (BCOCA) barcode symbologies. Xerox FreeFlow® Print Servers accept and validate all BCOCA data structured field values prior to printing the barcode. When there is an error in the barcode data, an appropriate exception is reported to the host. All barcodes printed meet the symbology specification standard for the selected barcode.
Applications can take advantage of the Xerox FreeFlow® Print
Server’s ability to generate barcodes based on the data supplied
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