June 2007 701P47301 Xerox FreeFlow ® Print Server IBM IPDS User Guide ®
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Table of Contents Introduction 1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-1 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-2 Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server Support for the IPDS Data Stream . . .1-2 Printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-2 Printer Model Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Tab l e o f Co nt en ts Defining a Logical Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-10 Verifying the Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-10 Printing a Trace Job Within IPS Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-11 Printing a Test Job From the Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-12 Using Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPS Manager 3 IPS Manager Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Ta b le o f Co n te nts Barcode Symbology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-22 Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPDS Network Connectivity Appendix A Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Configuring IBM z/OS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TCP/IP Configuration Overview - z/OS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Tab l e o f Co nt en ts iv IPDS User Guide
Introduction 1 Introduction The Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IBM® IPDS User Guide describes the Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server Intelligent Printer Data Stream support. IPDS is a print data stream defined by IBM®. This guide describes Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server support for IBM’s IPDS including various system menus, setup routines, operator commands for running print jobs, system supported environments, font management, host connectivity, and diagnostic trace capabilities.
Introduction Features Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server Support for the IPDS Data Stream Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPDS supports IPDS resulting from processing of AFP (Advanced Function Presentation) resources such as print data sets, page definitions, form definitions, page segments, fonts, and overlays.
Introduction Printer Model Selection The Xerox FreeFlow Print Server IPDS support allows the print server to be defined to the host as one of the following IBM® Advanced Function Printers: 3812, 3825, 3827, or 3935. NOTE: In addition to the predefined values, the type-in field also supports any user-defined four digit value.
Introduction manage fonts, capture IPDS trace files, and restart the IPS gateway.
Installation and Setup 2 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.
Installation and Setup • 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. Additionally, the system administrator can: • Capture or replay a Trace file. • Load, print, or delete resident fonts. Licensing Requirements The Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPDS feature must be licensed in order for it to function.
Installation and Setup 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 queue. Settings Although Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server supports spooling jobs, as well as streaming for other Printer Description Languages (PDLs), only streaming is supported for IPDS.
Installation and Setup Managing the Print Queue Using Queue Overrides The IPDS information processed by the IPDS gateway is sent to the Output queue selected in the IPS Manager. Use the Queue Manager to view and manage the queue properties applied to jobs. Under the PDL Settings tab, the IPDS FAB on the Queue Manager dialog may be used to set the resolution of the print data supplied to the print engine. Values of 300 or 600 dpi may be selected.
Installation and Setup NOTE: If an image shift is done at the IPDS queue level, then the banner page of the IPDS job will contain the image shift as well. Therefore, the data on the banner page may be shifted off the page. Queue Properties Following are selections 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.
Installation and Setup PostScript. For instance, if PostScript uses a default halftone of 106 lpi for 600 dpi, the IPDS tool will use the same halftone value for Resolution of 600.
Installation and Setup Setting Up Media If tray mapping is used on the IPS Manager to provide for stock switching on a per sheet basis, ensure that the override locks for the stock attributes are NOT set for the queue Programming Stock Margins Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server supports Stock Margin adjustments that are recognized by IPDS interpreter software. Stock Margins are specified in relation to the print engine process direction. This is the direction a sheet of paper moves through the print engine.
Installation and Setup process direction, back side process direction, back side cross-process direction. Figure 2-1. Margin adjustments Back Side Cross Process Direction Back Side Process Direction Front Side Process Direction Front Side Cross Process Direction For example, if the values: 100 0 0 600 are typed in the Stock Comments field, they represent: • front side process direction = 100 (1/6 inch or 4.
Installation and Setup NOTE: The AFP font collection product number has changed from 5648-113 to 5648-B45. Although Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPDS can still use the original CD supplied under 5648-113, IBM now ships two separate CDs under the 5648-B45 product number. The two CDs are Fonts for OS/400® (part number LK2T-9270-01) and Fonts for AIX®, OS/2®, Windows® NT, and Windows® 2000 (part number LK2T9269-01). Only the LK2T-9269-01 part number is supported by Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPDS.
Installation and Setup i5/OS® (System i) Setup You must set several parameters for resident outline font support. If you do not set these parameters properly, jobs submitted from i5/OS® (System i) expecting resident outline fonts may fail or print blank pages. If your host is a System i running i5/OS® and you require resident outline font support, the recommended setup is: • On the i5/OS® host, set the Resident Font parameter in the PSF Configuration object to *YES.
Installation and Setup server Queue Manager. This print queue initially has an Accept value of Yes and a Release value of Yes. • Ensure that no overrides are set on the queue for any of the properties defined earlier in this section. • Ensure the IPS Manager has the streaming queue selected as part of the active Job Profile. To verify that the installation and initial setup are successful, print a host job and either the US Letter or the A4 sample job.
Installation and Setup Print Server IPDS Tray 1 from US Letter to A4. In IPS Manager, you must map a medium to each Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPDS tray specified in the IPDS data stream. For the installation verification jobs, use US Letter or A4 media. Refer to the IPS Manager on-line help for the specific procedures. Printing a Test Job From the Host To verify host-to-printer communications, perform these steps to print a test job from the host: 1.
Using Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPS Manager 3 Using Xerox FreeFlow Print Server IPS Manager ® This chapter describes how to access the IPS Manager to set and manage the IPDS parameters. For more details and specific procedures, refer to the IPS Manager online help. IPS Manager Setup This section describes how to log on to the IPS Manager and access the IPS Manager screens.
Using Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPS Manager System The following operator commands are located on the System menu: • Go Offline • Go Online • Stop • Continue • System configuration • Manage Fonts • Trace • Restart IPS Gateway Go Offline / Go Online This command toggles between the online and offline modes. The IPS Manager does not go online until requested to do so. This command is only relevant when the Channel has been selected as the host interface on the System Configuration dialog.
Using Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPS Manager – Configuring the channel connection allows you to identify the unit address and channel speed assigned to the print server to send data to the IPS Manager from the host computer. NOTE: Channel modes are dictated by the host, host channel extender speeds, and other properties of the bus and tag network. See your systems programmer to determine the appropriate channel speed.
Using Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPS Manager with Print Services Facility (PSF) 2.1, and OS2 with PSF 2 version 2.1, do not support object containers and report object container support as an error condition. These hosts will not communicate with Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPDS unless legacy mode is enabled • The Disable End of Job feature improves performance for a series of short jobs.
Using Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPS Manager entire font list will be printed. • Import Fonts from CD: The Manage Font Dialog will allow you to load fonts from an IBM® formatted font CD. FreeFlow® Print Server IPDS is only able to import AFP Outline fonts from CD. • Eject CD: This option allows you to tell the system to eject a CD. Trace Trace information is useful for diagnosing and correcting problems with the Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPDS software.
Using Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPS Manager Job Profile Editor The IPS Manager screen is the main system screen for IPDS support. It is the entry point to all other screens used in IPDS data stream management. The options in the IPS Manager “Manage Job Profiles” dialog allow you to enter the IPDS specific settings used by Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPDS to compose the pages specified by the IPDS data stream.
Using Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPS Manager IPDS needs to be told what resolution to use for GOCA raster images. Use the GOCA Image Resolution setting on the IPS Manager Job Settings tab to specify the desired resolution (240, 300, 600) for GOCA images. This option only applies to applications that use raster images within GOCA objects. For these applications, it is very important that this option be set correctly. The images print in the wrong size if it is not.
Using Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPS Manager • Enable Image Caching: When On, the printer server caches images included in either a Page Segment or Overlay resource. As the Page Segments or Overlays are included by IPDS pages, caching and reusing the image data makes processing more efficient and results in significant performance gains, especially on full color printers. For optimum results, the Page Segments or Overlays should all be included either at the start or end of each page.
Using Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPS Manager required by the virtual tray. The Sides Imaged selection indicates which sides imaged selections are supported by the virtual tray. • Select Stock for Printer Trays: Allows you to select a stock name for each of the physical trays based on the named stocks in the print server stock library. • Saving and retrieving stock mappings using job setup files can reduce the time required to setup for printing a job, especially for complex stock mappings.
Using Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPS Manager Note that many jobs may not use all of the available virtual trays. 2. Ensure that one or more physical trays are mapped to the virtual tray(s) required for the job. Select the Refresh button. 3. When the Map IPDS Trays to Stock and the Select Stock for Printer Trays dialogs show all required mappings and loaded stocks, the mapping is complete.
Using Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPS Manager 1. Open the [IPS Manager] Tray Mappings tab. 2. Load the Job Profile for the job, or verify that the correct stocks are assigned to the Virtual and Physical Trays. 3. Ensure that the necessary physical stocks are loaded. If not, load the necessary stocks in the appropriate trays. 4. Review the Tray Type information in the IPS Manager Physical Tray assignment dialog, and ensure that the media selections are appropriate for the fusibility of the physical tray. 5.
Using Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPS Manager 3. Assign the stock to two different virtual trays. 4. Set the Tray Type for one virtual tray containing the stock to Inserter. 5. Set the Tray Type for the other Virtual Tray containing the stock to Fuser.
Using Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPS Manager Stacking, the system directs output to suitable bins as determined by an internal selection mechanism. If Unload While Run is supported by the printer, Printer Specified Stacking allows you to unload one bin while the printer continues to deliver sheets to another bin. Mapping the IPDS Output Bins to Physical Destinations The print server sends a list of available IPDS bins to the host.
Using Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPS Manager created in the Printer Manager, the IPS Manager Stacker Mappings tab includes stacker groups in the pull-down menu for the Output Location. The Output Location column shows the mapped output destination for the IPDS virtual bin. This location is a particular stacker, a stacker group, or another output location, such as a Top Tray, or DFA device. If the output location is a stacker group, the Stacker columns show which stackers belong to the group.
Using Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPS Manager NOTE: Changing the loaded settings with Save & Apply or Save requires that the IPDS Gateway inform the host regarding the changes. This should be done while the printer is not processing any IPDS jobs. If changes are saved while an IPDS job is printing, the job will be interrupted and the host will either restart the job or continue the job from the last checkpoint, which could result in duplicated pages. This is expected behavior.
Using Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPS Manager Run Time Considerations This section describes the operation of the system when a job is running. Interaction Between Streaming and Spooling Jobs In an IPDS environment, the Host IPDS client (e.g. PSF) performs job scheduling. While an IPDS streaming job is active, the printer continues to receive and spool other print data types (excluding other streaming jobs).
Using Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPS Manager Page Count Reporting Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server reports only IPDS application pages in the Committed and Stacked page counts returned to IPDS hosts. Pages that are printed in response to Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server features are excluded from the count. For example, system generated slip-sheets are not counted. The print server provides many advanced features at the printer.
Using Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPS Manager the print server only supports these features for spooling jobs, and Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPDS can only be used with streaming queues. NOTE: The system can feed inserts and covers from non-fusing tray in response to application commands as described in Map Virtual Trays for Non-Fusing Stock.
Using Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPS Manager NOTE: The constraints are not applicable to multiple copies requested by the IPDS job. Copygroup and Copysubgroup processing is performed properly as per the IPDS specification. If job accounting on the host is to be accurate, multiple copy control should be done by the IPDS job and not by the output Quantity in the queue.
Using Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPS Manager host reflect only the pages printed. Therefore, if there is a failure, and the host retransmits pages that were not yet stacked, some of the pages saved during recovery may duplicate pages saved before the failure. Canceling IPDS Jobs Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server integrates the standard IPDS Cancel behavior with its own Cancel mechanism. To cancel a job, open Job Manager and select [Cancel] from the job menu.
Using Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPS Manager appropriate interactions with the host take place, rather than simply terminating the job.
Using Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPS Manager IPDS Sessions In general, IPDS sessions begin with the first IPDS command that an IPDS device receives and end when either an IPDS command explicitly ends the session or when the carrying-protocol session ends. Some IPDS printers support an optional command, called Manage IPDS Dialog (MID) that can explicitly start or stop an IPDS dialog.
Using Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPS Manager or they can generate barcodes using fonts or graphics as may have been done in the past.
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Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPDS Network Connectivity Appendix A Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPDS Network Connectivity Appendix Overview This appendix describes the process of configuring various systems to communicate and print on a Xerox FreeFlow Print Server with IPDS using TCP/IP or channel attachment.
2. TCP/IP for z/OS parameters (Refer to z/OS Communications Server IP Configuration Reference) 3. A. PSF procedure (Refer to the IBM Print Services Facilities for z/OS Customization manual) B. Infoprint Server procedure (Refer to the z/OS Infoprint Server Customization and the z/OS Infoprint Server Operations and Administration manuals) 4. A. JES2 parameters (Refer to z/OS JES2 Initialization and Tuning Guide and z/OS JES2 Initialization and Tuning Reference) B.
Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPDS Network Connectivity Appendix Reference Documents - z/OS The following documents provide additional information on z/OSto-IPDS printer connectivity. Table A-1.
3. PSF procedure (Refer to System i Printing Basic printing and IBM Systems - iSeries Printing Advanced Function Presentation) Reference Documents - i5/OS The following documents provide additional information on i5/OSto-IPDS printer connectivity. Table A-2.
Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPDS Network Connectivity Appendix NOTE: The printer IP Address is specified during the initial software load. Set the TCP/IP port number in the IPS Manager System Configuration dialog. 2. Infoprint Manager procedure (Refer to the Infoprint Manager for AIX: Introduction and Planning Guide and the Infoprint Manager for AIX: Getting Started) Reference Documents - AIX The following documents provide additional information on AIX-toIPDS printer connectivity. Table A-3.
NOTE: The printer IP Address is specified during the initial software load. Set the TCP/IP port number in the IPS Manager System Configuration dialog. 2. Infoprint Manager procedure (Refer to the Infoprint Manager for Windows: Introduction and Planning Guide and the Infoprint Manager for Windows: Getting Started) Reference Documents - Windows The following documents provide additional information on WIndows-to-IPDS printer connectivity. Table A-4.
Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPDS Network Connectivity Appendix Performance Notes The Xerox FreeFlow Print Server IPDS printers are very high speed devices compared to many other network devices. It is possible that in some configurations, you may find printers running at less than the rated print speed. In a typical installation, tuning for optimal printer performance can be complex, since there may be many different network components between the host system and the printer.
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