PSF/AIX or PSF/2:Bin selection with PostScript or AFP Driver
ITEM: RTA000148781
Q:
Topic thread:
Printer Systems (PRINT)
PSF/AIX
PRINT XPSF6000
1. Can PostScript be used to select input bins?
2. Does PSF for AIX interpret these controls?
The same question should be asked about the PSF/2 in case OSM cannot
be sold.
3. Is it possible to indicate in the AFP Printer Driver that a page
should be taken from a specific input bin?
The customer has a Xerox DocuPrint 180 with 6 input bins. Now an
application is being developed with Postscript as output datastream.
The Computer Center, however, wants AFP. So I am investigating if we
can handle this. The application is PC based and the only use we can
make is the AFP Printer Driver to generate AFPDS. The Xerox printer can
handle IPDS.
If we can do this, I can sell them OSM as well and I have an opportunity
for a winback on the large production printers which are now Oce.
This is very important and I need all the help I can get.
A:
1) You can specify bin selection in PostScript source, and this is
described in the PostScript Language Reference Manual, 2nd edition,
in section 4.11.4 on Media Selection.
2) Does PSF/AIX honor that? No, and I don't believe PSF/2 would either
as they utilize the same PostScript transform. The limitations are
in the area of bin selection and duplex/simplex switching within the
data stream. The PostScript transforms in PSF/AIX and PSF/2 do not
honor those; rather any specification of bin selection or plex must
be specified in the formdef and is in effect for the whole job.
There are some differences in InfoPrint Manager for AIX V2.1.1, so
if that's of interest, let me know and I'll go into additional
detail.
3) Can the AFP Driver for Windows specify a different bin selection by
page? It depends on the Windows application from which they are
trying to print. You would need to have "Inline Formdef" in the
driver checked. For example, according to the developer of the
AFP Driver, MS Word allows you to specify bin selection page, but
Excel does not. The AFP Driver should honor those selections set
through the application, but it does not have any way itself to
specify a different bin selection by page.
I hope that helps. Please reopen this item if you need additional
information.
S e a r c h - k e y w o r d s:
aix os/2 psf/aix psf/6000 psf/2 afp driver windows bin selection
duplex postscript infoprint device controls
WWQA: ITEM: RTA000148781 ITEM: RTA000148781
Dated: 03/1999 Category: XPSF6000
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