IBM Intelligent Printer Data Stream: Difference between revisions

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'''Intelligent Printer Data Stream''' (IPDS) describesis theIBM’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 IBM and OEM 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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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.

Similar to [[PPDS]], IPDS uses binary encoded commands and paraters, but IPDS is not compatible with PPDS.

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