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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>