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Enterprise Printing Option\Switching modes

The Xerox Enterprise Printing Option is a dual mode system that supports both the AFP and PostScript/PCL environments. This option provides all of the capabilities of the Xerox Network Printer Series (NPS) family and the DocuPrint IPS series. It allows you to control the priority of print jobs from mainframe hosts and network clients, thus enabling you to print legacy applications.

For example, if you have a high volume of internal documents to print from the mainframe and have many network clients that produce a high volume of printed output, you may print these applications to one printer at two different times of the day. You can print from the network clients during business hours, when the majority of your employees are at work. Then, you can schedule your AFP documents to print from the mainframe after regular business hours. The result? You make better use of your printers by keeping them active during all hours of the day.

This figure shows how you can incorporate the Enterprise Printing

Option into your work environment:

These printers work in a network environment and support these output data streams:

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PostScript Level 2

PCL 5e

ASCII

TIFF (CCITT Group 4) wrapped in PostScript.

For more information on the Enterprise Printing Option and the DocuPrint NPS printers, refer to the DocuPrint NPS user documentation.

Switching between print modes

While using the IPS print mode, the DocuPrint IPS/NPS printer can spool NPS data streams in the background using the TCP/IP communications protocol. To print these documents from the print spool, you must switch to NPS print mode. Note, however, that while in NPS print mode, the printer cannot receive IPDS (IPS data streams) in the background.

You can switch easily from one print mode to the other (for example, from IPS to NPS or from NPS to IPS). For instructions on switching between print modes, refer to the printer documentation.

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