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'''Intelligent Printer Data Stream''' (IPDS) is InfoPrint Solution Company's Systems Application Architecture host-to-printer data stream for [[Advanced Function Presentation]] subsystems. It provides an attachment-independent interface for controlling and managing [[all- points- addressable]] (APA) printers that allows 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 InfoPrint and [[OEM]] [[print server|print servers]] that drive all- points- addressable (APA) page printers. Generally these printers are at the medium to high end of the print speed and volume spectrum.

The IPDS architecture allows for both spooled data and print job management to flow bidirectionally between the print server (or print driver) and the Printer Controller.

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Examples of spooled data can be:

* Positioning Information for locating objects within the page

* [[Fonts]]

* Text

* Images

* [[bar code|Bar Codes]]

* [http://www.as400tcpipprinting.com/iseries-graphical-overlay.html 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 [[IBM systems network architecture|SNA]]) and the supporting hardware [[LAN|LANs]], 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 acknowledgment back to the print server.