Xerox 701P47301 manual Features, Printers

Introduction

Features

Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server Support for the IPDS Data Stream

Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPDS supports IPDS resulting from processing of AFP (Advanced Function Presentation) resources such as print data sets, page definitions, form definitions, page segments, fonts, and overlays. There are several IBM® data architectures within the AFP environment that are fully supported by Xerox FreeFlow Print Server IPDS:

•MO: DCA-P: Mixed Object Document Content Architecture for presentation

•PTOCA PT1, PT2, and PT3: Presentation Text Object Content Architecture

•IOCA: Image Object Content Architecture

•GOCA: Graphics Object Content Architecture

•BCOCA: Bar Code Object Content Architecture

Each of the data objects follows the same object rule of containing delimited fields within the structure fields describing each object.

IPDS commands within the data stream enable the system to control the media-handling capabilities of the printer and other operations dealing with paper. The commands also provide the means for managing the downloading of fonts and stored objects, such as overlays and page segments that are required to print an application.

Xerox FreeFlow Print Server IPDS provides the ability to:

•Properly image all supported IPDS resources.

•Recognize and process all required IPDS commands supported by the Xerox FreeFlow Print Server.

Printers

IPDS data stream printing is supported on a variety of Xerox production devices with Xerox FreeFlow Print Server, including light production, production monochrome, highlight color, and color printers.

NOTE: Xerox FreeFlow Print Server IPDS currently does not support continuous feed printing systems.

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