Re: Configuring *LAN printers with *IPDS attachment

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--- Douglas Handy <dhandy1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Marco,
> 
> >I'm not really sure about it but you can avoid
> configuring
> >it as IPDS only to print barcodes and ocr. Using Host
> print
> >transform usually it's ok
> 
> Won't that entail changing the PRTF from IPDS to AFPDS,
> and doesn't AFPDS also
> require a PSF license?

No, I regulary use AFPDS printer files and print using HPT
(no PSF licensed on 80% of our customers...).

> 
> I'm also not sure why the 400 should chew cycles doing
> HPT when the printer can
> handle it internally just from the data stream.  Isn't
> that why IPDS exists?  To
> put the intelligence in the printer?

I agree but you have to pay for it

> Was having the IPDS attachment for the Infoprint 1125 a
> mistake?

No, especially if the printers are not local

> Should it just be configured as a *LAN 3812 PJL?

It's exactly what we usually do, of course if the printers
are not too many and the printing volume not huge.
Otherwise we sugggest to pay the licences and switch to
IPDS.

> Doug


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