PSF/AIX or PSF/2:Bin selection with PostScript or AFP Driver

ITEM: RTA000148781



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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                                     
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                               


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Dated: 03/1999 Category: XPSF6000
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