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'''Intelligent Printer Data Stream''' (IPDS) is Info Print Solution Company's [[IBM Systems Application Architecture|Systems Application Architecture]] host-to-printer data stream for [[Advanced Function Presentation]] subsystems.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/980540512|title=Guide to the electronic document body of knowledge.|date=2014|publisher=MC2 Books|isbn=978-1-893347-05-2|pages=203|oclc=980540512}}</ref> It provides an attachment-independent interface for controlling and managing [[all points addressable|all point addressable]] (APA) printers that allow the presentation of pages containing an architecturally unlimited mixture of different data types, including text, image, graphics, bar code, and object container. It is used by a variety of Info Print and [[OEM]] [[print server]]s that drive all points addressable (APA) page printers. Generally, these printers are at the medium to the high end of the print speed and volume spectrum.

"One of the strengths of IPDS is that independent applications can create source data for each data block. The output of these independent applications is merged at the printer to create an integrated mixed data page."<ref>{{cite web |last1=IBM Corporation |title=Intelligent Printer Data Stream |url=https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_73/rzalu/rzaluidps.htm |website=IBM Knowledge Center |access-date=May 30, 2020}}</ref>

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Similar to [[Personal Printer Data Stream|PPDS]], IPDS uses binary encoded commands and parameters, but IPDS is not compatible with PPDS.

"IPDS is the 'online' way being used to print AFP ([[Advanced Function Presentation]]) documents. They can also be printed using the AFPDS format 'offline'."<ref>{{cite web |title=IPDS : Intelligent Printer Data Stream |url=https://www.mpitech.com/afp-ipds-intelligent-printer-data-stream/ |website=MPI Tech |date=2826 JulyOctober 20162023 |access-date=MayOctober 3026, 20202023}}</ref>

==Printers==

A number of printers support IPDS directly.

* Compuprint—"Heavy Duty IPDS Desktop Matrix Printers in speeds of up to 1100 CPS"<ref name="TwinData">{{cite web |title=IPDS Printers and Printer Connectivity |url=httphttps://www.twindata.com/ipdsprinters.htm |website=TwinData |access-date=May 30, 2020}}</ref>

* [[HP Inc.|HP]]—various printers using a plug-in [[Flash memory]] device.<ref>{{cite book |publisher=Hewlett-Packard Development Company|title=IPDS Printing Solution Administrator Guide |date=2009 |url=http://www.hp.com/sbso/product/printing/laserjetfonts/ipds-administrator-guide.pdf |access-date=May 30, 2020}}</ref>

* IBM—IBM no longer manufactures printers.

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* [[Zebra Technologies|Zebra]]—Thermal & Thermal Transfer Printers for Printing Labels and Bar Codes

A number of print servers are available from companies such as MPITechMPI Tech, IPDS Printing Solutions, IOCorp, [[Xerox]], and [[Microsoft]].

==See also==

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==External links==

*[http://publibfp.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/ha3r6mst.pdf Intelligent Printer Data Stream Reference]

*[http://rpp.ricoh-usa.com/images/uploads/Literature/PSFsPrinters.pdf Ricoh IPDS printers (2013)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222125657/http://rpp.ricoh-usa.com/images/uploads/Literature/PSFsPrinters.pdf |date=2015-12-22 }}

*[http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psd1P7000003 IBM IPDS printers (2009)]{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}