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Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server

IBM® IPDS User Guide

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Installation and Setup

The requirements and instructions for installing the Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPDS software and 
setting up the printing environment are described in this section. Review this entire chapter before 
proceeding with the installation.

Some setup tasks are performed on the print server window and some are performed on the print 
server IPS Manager. The main installation and setup tasks are:

Licensing and configuring the software and features

Defining the print server IPDS queue

Setting up media

Loading IBM® AFP resident outline fonts (optional)

Defining a logical printer

Verifying the installation

Software Requirements

Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server, version 7.0 or higher.

Note 

If your Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPDS configuration requires a channel connection, you 

will need an online channel board. Contact your local Xerox representative for more information.

User Access Levels

Access to the IPS Manager is controlled by the print server logon level. Three user levels are available to 
access Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPS Manager, each with its own level of feature access.

User/Operator

: The User and the Operator have limited access rights to the IPS Manager. This is the 

access level assigned when IPS Manager is first started.

The User or the Operator can do the following:

Modify and apply settings in the Job Settings, Tray Mappings and Stacker Mappings tabs, and the 
System Configuration window.

Use the Manage Job Profiles button to invoke the Job Profile Editor dialog.

Load a Job Profile through the Job Profile Editor.

Select Go Online and Go Offline.

Select Stop or Continue.

Restart IPS Gateway

System Administrator:

 The system administrator requires a password and can perform the same 

functions as the Operator. 

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Страница 1: ...Version 8 0 SPx May 2011 702P00113 Xerox FreeFlow Print Server IBM IPDS User Guide...

Страница 2: ...yright 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated Adobe the Adobe logo Acrobat the Acrobat logo Acrobat Reader Distiller Adobe PDF JobReady and PostScript and the PostScript logo are either registered trademarks...

Страница 3: ...Managing the Print Queue 2 3 Setting Up Media 2 5 Loading IBM AFP Resident Outline Fonts 2 6 Defining a Logical Printer 2 7 Installing IPDS Software 2 8 3 Using the Xerox FreeFlow Print Server IPS Ma...

Страница 4: ...eFlow Print Server IPDS Network Connectivity Appendix Overview 5 1 Configuring IBM z OS 5 1 Configuring IBM i5 OS 5 3 Configuring IBM Infoprint Manager for AIX 5 4 Configuring IBM Infoprint Manager fo...

Страница 5: ...d by IBM IPDS is a sequence of information transmitted between a host computer and IPDS printer as directed by a print driver such as IBM s Print Service Facility PSF In addition to delivering print d...

Страница 6: ...ers IPDS data stream printing is supported on a variety of Xerox cut sheet production devices with Xerox FreeFlow Print Server including light production production monochrome highlight color and colo...

Страница 7: ...eeFlow Print Server and is accessible through the main print server GUI System pull down menu The IPS Manager provides job setting tray mappings and stacker mappings options It also allows system conf...

Страница 8: ...Introduction Xerox FreeFlow Print Server IBM IPDS User Guide 1 4...

Страница 9: ...iguration requires a channel connection you will need an online channel board Contact your local Xerox representative for more information User Access Levels Access to the IPS Manager is controlled by...

Страница 10: ...a streaming queue Creating an IPDS Target Queue In the Queue Manager select New from the Queue drop down menu or from the short cut icon Refer to the following properties to make selections for IPDS...

Страница 11: ...t size of the external finisher otherwise performance issues may be encountered Managing the Print Queue Using Queue Overrides The IPDS information processed by the IPDS gateway is sent to the Output...

Страница 12: ...relating to IPDS queues Settings Select the Input Format Feature Access Button FAB Under Input select Streaming Output The default setting for the Output Order is System Specified For most products th...

Страница 13: ...his is the direction a sheet of paper moves through the print engine Stock Margins are programmed via the Stock Library using the Stock Comments field Stock Margins settings are retained in the system...

Страница 14: ...rint Server IPDS provides the ability to load and use printer resident AFP scalable outline fonts These fonts are loaded from the IBM AFP Font Collection CD which is purchased separately The AFP Font...

Страница 15: ...Enhanced Font Support feature Enabled When Enhanced Font Support is enabled if the host requests a raster font Xerox FreeFlow Print Server IPDS substitutes an equivalent resident outline font if one...

Страница 16: ...ned on the print server for your system You can view this queue by using the print server Queue Manager This print queue initially has an Accept value of Yes and a Release value of Yes Ensure that no...

Страница 17: ...Server IPDS processing on the printer The trace files are set up to use the installation default parameters If you plan to run the A4 trace instead of the US Letter trace change the Media Definition...

Страница 18: ...Installation and Setup Xerox FreeFlow Print Server IBM IPDS User Guide 2 10...

Страница 19: ...screens The IPS manager screens are used to configure host connection parameters stop and continue IPDS processing define paper trays or output locations in the printer save job settings Logging on t...

Страница 20: ...IPS Manager connection method to the host either TCP IP or channel Configuring the TCP IP connection allows you to identify the TCP IP port number used with the TCP IP address assigned to the print se...

Страница 21: ...Mode When legacy mode is disabled Xerox FreeFlow Print Server IPDS informs the host at startup that it supports container objects in home state i e between jobs Certain hosts including the RS 6000 wit...

Страница 22: ...ts from CD Eject CD This option allows you to tell the system to eject a CD Note For more information on fonts see Loading IBM AFP Resident Outline Fonts Trace Trace information is useful for diagnosi...

Страница 23: ...ly To change the values select Manage Job Profiles to open the Job Profile Editor Job Settings Functions The Job Settings tab provides access to the following features Resource Resolution Use the reso...

Страница 24: ...the rotation is 90 degrees in the clockwise direction If the same application is printed on an IBM 3800 printer which is a continuous form printer and a Xerox FreeFlow Print Server IPS Manager printe...

Страница 25: ...rtual tray used by the host Note Due to limited media attribute information LCDS system stocks MAIN AUX and AUTO which are accessible from the Xerox FreeFlow Print Server Printer dialog will not appea...

Страница 26: ...virtual trays 2 Ensure that one or more physical trays are mapped to the virtual tray s required for the job 3 When the Map IPDS Trays to Stock and the Select Stock for Printer Trays dialogs show all...

Страница 27: ...elections are appropriate for the fusibility of the physical tray 5 Review and if necessary update the Tray Type settings in the IPS Manager Virtual Tray mapping dialog to ensure that the host will tr...

Страница 28: ...ted it is helpful for a System Administrator or other expert to store the initial mapping in a job setup profile which can then be invoked by the operator when the application must be run again Coding...

Страница 29: ...where to deliver each sheet by mapping the virtual bin requested by the host to a specific physical stacker on the printer as selected in the Map IPDS Bins to Stackers panel in the Stacker Mappings di...

Страница 30: ...ing the Stacking selection from the Printer drop down menu Select Create Stacker Group to create a new group or right click on a group and select Properties to change the stackers within an existing g...

Страница 31: ...pages This is expected behavior Unless the job must be interrupted to make use of the new settings changes should only be made while the printer is idle Note Selecting Cancel causes the IPS GUI dialo...

Страница 32: ...Using the Xerox FreeFlow Print Server IPS Manager Xerox FreeFlow Print Server IBM IPDS User Guide 3 14...

Страница 33: ...spooled job and any other previously scheduled jobs are done Only one streaming queue can be active on the printer at a given time If a user attempts to submit an IPDS job while another streaming job...

Страница 34: ...host Protects the integrity of IPDS jobs even when pages are processed in a different order than originally provided by the host Permits Xerox FreeFlow Print Server features to be invoked without aff...

Страница 35: ...since it will appear to the host that the job has already completed If a failure occurs while Xerox FreeFlow Print Server is processing multiple copies for an IPDS job additional copies will be print...

Страница 36: ...er PDLs there are a number of special cases that can occur including Handling a cancel attempt that is unable to complete Canceling a job that has completed decomposition Canceling a job that has not...

Страница 37: ...tion to determine what color management resources and commands the printer can accept In response to the Request Resource List RRL command from the host Xerox FreeFlow Print Server provides a list of...

Страница 38: ...lor Management dialog are used as appropriate when the host does not embed color management information in the IPDS data stream Note Profile and Rendering Intent Queue Property selections from the Xer...

Страница 39: ...iling in an IPDS Environment If you update a Destination ICC Profile on the FreeFlow Print Server to account for characteristics of a specific system its content will no longer match the content of th...

Страница 40: ...e state IPDS command that requests that a previously activated presentation data object resource or overlay be rasterized and cached using the specific orientation and presentation object overrides sp...

Страница 41: ...the IBM Bar Code Object Content Architecture Reference S544 3766 06 for specific commands The 4 CB has 4 modifiers that determine how many numbers the barcode uses Modifier X 00 is a tracking code on...

Страница 42: ...reation and provides flexibility to incorporate resources in native format without conversion Object containers can be included using a Write Object Container Control command followed by one or more W...

Страница 43: ...ring IBM z OS This section discusses the parameters and procedures required to define a Xerox FreeFlow Print Server IPDS printer to your System z series host This section is applicable to both JES2 an...

Страница 44: ...ng up 4 components 1 IPS Manager System Configuration Menu Refer to System Configuration Note The printer device address corresponds to the address setting in the channel dialog of the IPS Manager Sys...

Страница 45: ...P port number in the IPS Manager System Configuration dialog 2 TCP IP for i5 OS parameters Refer to System i Networking TCP IP Setup 3 PSF procedure Refer to System i Printing Basic printing and IBM S...

Страница 46: ...nvolves setting up 2 components 1 IPS Manager System Configuration Menu Refer to System Configuration Note The printer IP Address is specified during the initial software load Set the TCP IP port numb...

Страница 47: ...ager System Configuration Menu Refer to System Configuration Note The printer IP Address is specified during the initial software load Set the TCP IP port number in the IPS Manager System Configuratio...

Страница 48: ...section provides some pointers on where to look in the event that you experience print speed degradation Like any tuning activity this is a process You must first find the Current Bottleneck and allev...

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