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Xerox Docuprint NPS/ IPS Solutions Guide for IPDS Printing Xerox DocuPrint NPS/ IPS Solutions Guide for IPDS Printing 721P90530 Version 8.0 October 2002 Xerox Corporation 701 S. Aviation Boulevard El Segundo, CA 90245 ©2002 by Xerox Corporation. All rights reserved. Copyright protection claimed includes all forms and matters of copyrightable material and information now allowed by statutory or judicial law or hereinafter granted, including without limitation, material generated from the software programs which are displayed on the screen, such as icons, screen displays, looks, etc. Printed in the United States of America. Publication number: 721P90530 Xerox® and all Xerox products mentioned in this publication are trademarks of Xerox Corporation. Products and trademarks of other companies are also acknowledged. Changes are periodically made to this document. Changes, technical inaccuracies, and typographic errors will be corrected in subsequent editions. Table of contents Safety . ix Laser safety . .ix Ozone information: U. S. only . x Operation safety: U. S. x Operation safety: Europe . .xi Warning markings . .xi Electrical supply . xii Ventilation . xii Operator accessible areas . xii Maintenance . xiii Before cleaning your product . xiii CE mark: Europe only . xiii Radio and telecommunications equipment directive (Europe only) . xiv For further information . xv Introduction . xvii Intended audience . xvii Document scope and organization . xviii Contents . xviii Conventions . xix Related publications . xx IBM reference manuals . xxi Additional information . xxiii 1. DocuPrint NPS/IPS overview . 1-1 DocuPrint NPS/IPS printer capabilities . 1-2 Application examples . 1-2 Insurance . 1-3 Manufacturing . 1-6 Banking . 1-7 Document types . 1-8 Policy production . 1-8 EOBs with check . 1-8 Solutions Guide for IPDS Printing iii Table of contents 2. AFP summary . 2-1 What is AFP? . 2-1 AFP resources . 2-1 Page definitions (PageDefs) . 2-2 Form definitions (FormDefs) . 2-2 Page segments . 2-3 Overlays . 2-3 Fonts . 2-3 AFP architecture . 2-4 Object Content Architectures . 2-4 Data streams . 2-5 Data towers . 2-6 PSF platforms . 2-6 Mainframe connections . 2-7 Direct bus and tag . 2-7 ESCON connection . 2-8 Remote connection: channel extender . 2-8 Remote connection: BARR/RJE . 2-9 TCP/IP connection: Ethernet . 2-10 TCP/IP connection: Token Ring . 2-11 AS/400 connections . 2-11 AS/400 remote connection . 2-12 TCP/IP connection: Ethernet . 2-12 TCP/IP connection: Token Ring . 2-13 RS/6000 connections . 2-13 InfoPrint Manager stand-alone connection . 2-14 TCP/IP connection: Ethernet . 2-14 TCP/IP connection: Token Ring . 2-15 3. DocuPrint NPS/IPS system . 3-1 DocuPrint NPS/IPS summary . 3-1 Hardware . 3-1 Software . 3-2 Processing overview . 3-2 DocuPrint NPS/IPS printing environment . 3-2 DocuPrint NPS/IPS printers . 3-3 Concurrent dual mode . 3-3 DocuPrint NPS/IPS architecture . 3-4 IPDS command sets and towers . 3-5 Data towers . 3-6 Text function set – PTOCA (PT1, PT2, and PT3) . 3-6 IM Image function set (IM/1) . 3-6 IO Image function set – IOCA (IO/1) . 3-6 Graphic function set – GOCA (GR/1) . 3-6 Bar Code function set – BCOCA (BC/1) . 3-7 iv Solutions Guide for IPDS Printing Table of contents Resource towers . 3-7 Page Segment function set (PS/1) . 3-7 Overlay function set (OL/1) . 3-7 Loaded Font function set (LF/1, LF/3) . 3-7 Object Container function set (OC/1) . 3-8 Product capabilities . 3-8 User interface . 3-8 Printer emulation . 3-9 Sense Type and Model (STM) command . 3-9 Obtain Printer Characteristics (OPC) command . 3-9 Remote printing solutions . 3-10 4. DocuPrint NPS/IPS application migration . 4-1 Where do application resources reside? . 4-1 Resource creation packages and programs . 4-2 IBM . 4-2 IBM AFP Font Collection . 4-2 Overlay Generation Language (OGL) . 4-2 Graphical Data Display Manager (GDDM) . 4-2 Page Printer Formatting Aid (PPFA) . 4-3 IBM AFP Windows Printer Driver . 4-3 Elixir . 4-3 Elixer Opus . 4-3 Elixir Desktop and Converters for AFP . 4-3 ElixirFont for AFP . 4-4 ElixirForm for AFP . 4-4 ElixirImage for AFP . 4-4 Elixir AppBuilder for AFP . 4-5 Lytrod Software . 4-5 ISIS . ..
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