Re: IPDS Printing

Wilt, Charles wrote:

You guys are getting a little confused.

*AFPDS is basically a superset of *IPDS. Everything you can do in *IPDS you can do in *AFPDS plus
*AFPDS can do lots more.

I've _never_ been clear on this issue.

If nothing else, an element of IPDS that I haven't seen outside of IPDS is the ability of the printers to inform the system of printing status. Spooled files could be sent to 'intelligent' printers to be printed when the printer has completed previous print jobs; the files might be 'queued' inside the printer. The notification that printing completed wouldn't appear for the user until that spooled file physically finished printing.

I've often felt that the 'intelligent' communication between printer and system was a kind of defining characteristic of IPDS regardless of AFPDS content.

But there seems to be so little clear info on both terms...

Tom Liotta