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Overview
Features & Benefits
Requirements
Overview
BARR/PRINT AFP is a conversion module of the Barr Enterprise
Print Server that allows you to selectively print fully composed
AFP jobs to any Windows-compatible printer.
Mainframe
printing connectivity is not complete without support for AFP data streams. AFP is an IBM standard print format and the corresponding print data stream
is Intelligent Printer Data Streams (IPDS). The BARR/PRINT AFP module allows
any fully-composed AFP job to be routed through BARR/SPOOL to any set of
destination Windows printers. The document represented by the AFP data
stream will be faithfully rendered on the target printers. Mainframe-based
jobs can be routed and printed to low-cost, LAN-attached printers, or even
high-speed production printers that are compatible with Windows.
A number of
other solutions exist for rendering AFP data streams on low-cost printers. Often, however, these solutions do not process AFP data streams, but instead
process IPDS. The work of translating AFP data falls to PSF on the host.
Unlike these other solutions, the BARR/PRINT AFP module eliminates the need
for PSF because it processes the AFP data stream directly.
Typically, AFP
jobs originate from mainframe-based document composition tools and printing
utilities. They also can be generated by workstation-based utilities.
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Features &
Benefits
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Renders
fully composed AFP print data sets to Windows printers |
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Allows an
accurate specification of a reprint range, even for mixplex and N-up
documents |
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Provides
complete management of AFP jobs on the computer including restarting,
routing and archiving through BARR/SPOOL |
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Allows the
spool to receive any AFP job from many sources, including hosts using
NJE, hosts using RJE, hosts and workstations using LPR, network folders
and third-party applications |
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Allows
user-customizable font substitution, providing the option of replacing
AFP fonts with scalable Windows fonts |
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Supports
full MO:DCA-P (IS/1 and IS/2) and MO:DCA-L specifications, including: |
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Images:
IOCA, IM |
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Text:
PTOCA |
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Bar Codes:
BCOCA (UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-8, EAN-13, all 2 and 5 digit supplements, and
POSTNET) |
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Bitmapped
fonts: FOCA |
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Vector
Graphics: GOCA |
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In-line
and out-of-line resources: Overlays, page segments, coded fonts, font
character sets, and code pages |
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Supports
all presentation spaces with scaling, translation, rotation,
left-to-right and right-to-left text |
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Uses the
AFP Viewer utility, accessible through BARR/SPOOL, to view documents
that are in AFP format and perform the following tasks:
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View the
document as logical pages or physical sheets. |
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Set the
reprint range to a selected range of sheets. |
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Choose
from eight viewing modes |
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Go to a
specific page |
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Set the
display magnification level |
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Reprint
the current document. |
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Requirements
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Barr Enterprise Print Server |
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