IBM Intelligent Printer Data Stream: Difference between revisions

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'''Intelligent Printer Data Stream''' (IPDS) is InfoPrintInfo 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 allowsallow 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 InfoPrintInfo 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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* Electronic overlays

IPDS data streams are purely used to carry print information and data. This is above the network transport layer (typically [[TCP/IP]] or [[Systems Network Architecture|SNA]]) and the supporting hardware [[LAN]]s, channels, and network controllers.

IPDS carries data and instructions from the print server to the printer in structured fields. The printer controller processes these IPDS commands and returns acknowledgmentan backacknowledgment to the print server.

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

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* [[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.

* [[Printronix]]—"IPDS Matrix Line Printers in speeds of 500 LPM, 1000 LPM, 1500 LPM, and 2000 LPM"<ref name=TwinData />

* [[Ricoh]]—"IPDS Matrix Line Printers in speeds of 500 LPM, 1000 LPM, 1500 LPM and 2000 LPM. Heavy Duty IPDS Desktop Matrix Printers in speeds of up to 1100 CPS"<ref name=TwinData />

* [[Tally (company)|Tally-Dascom]]—Heavy Duty IPDS Desktop Matrix Printers in speeds of up to 1000 CPS<ref name=TwinData />