Re: AFP/IPDS laser printers

Hi Mike

Host Print Transform CAN handle a lot of the IPDS stuff. The main drawback is performance - with IPDS, the resources like PAGSEGs, etc., are downloaded once at the start of the printing - with HPT, each page is rendered in software, and every page that has a PAGSEG, say, gets the contents of that PAGSEG downloaded with each page.

So it's software vs hardware rendering. The latter is going to be a lot faster in long runs. Single-page stuff? Probably doesn't matter much.

HPT doesn't always handle color, so you could go that way.

HTH
Vern

On 10/31/2013 7:28 AM, Mike Cunningham wrote:

Can anyone recommend a good IP laser printer that supports AFP/IPDS printing? We want to create overlays with our spooled output and then send to a printer. Looking to eliminate a proprietary Xerox printer language we use to create overlays now and get back to something more universal. We current create overlays to use with emailing some documents (POs) but when we print POs we use preprinted forms. We are on V7.1. We have not done this but think we could use the built in PDF output and associate it with an AFP output queue and then FTP a PDF to any printer that supports receiving an FTP of a PDF. But just having an AFP/IPDS compatible printer sounds a lot easier. Color is not needed but could be useful. 70-80 page per minute range on the printer.

Or we look into how to load an overlay to an HP printer and then how to trigger the use of that overlay from a non-AFP spool file.


Mike Cunningham
VP of Information Technology Services/CIO
Pennsylvania College of Technology