AFP Platform

AFP and IPDS support speed, personalization and output integrity

InfoPrint Solutions Company’s AFP platform drives simplicity into output environments. As a published, object-oriented, device-independent architecture, AFP can streamline:

• Creation and management of personalized content
• Integration with existing statement systems
• Use of color in high-speed production printing
• Data control, security and integrity
• Delivery of information in your choice of format
• Workflow management

The heritage of InfoPrint Solutions Company includes the development of the IBM Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) Architecture – now an industry standard – and Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS), which has since become the standard for mission critical business printing. Learn more about AFP architecture and InfoPrint’s involvement with the AFP Consortium by visiting the AFP Consortium Website.

Industry information
AFP Consortium
AFP resources
AFP update bulletin >
AFP support for TrueType/OpenType fonts and unicode >
AFP Container Architecture >
Managing variable data full-color printing at high speeds >
AFP: Basics, updates and advances >
AFP Color Management architecture >
Whitepaper: How to maximize the printing potential of your IBM™ eserver with AFP >
Architecture references
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AFP Platform

AFP and IPDS support speed, personalization and output integrity

How does it work?

InfoPrint Solutions Company’s Advanced Function Presentation^™ (AFP^™) platform is a published standard in the print industry for printing variable data at very high speeds with complete integrity. AFP incorporates other industry formats, including EPS, PDF, TIFF, GIF, JPEG (JFIF), XML, and PCL—to cover the entire range of text, image, graphics, process color, highlight color and monochrome printing.

With page-level print monitoring and error recovery, AFP has the ability to print on standard printing device and deliver content via HTML, fax, e-mail or screen. When it is combined with an Intelligent Printer Data Stream^™ (IPDS^™) printer, AFP also provides:

• Full page-level error recovery
• Exceptional print integrity
• Resource management to support printing at rated speeds
• Full color capability including support for ICC-based color management
• Dynamic, published architecture capable of evolving with technology advances

AFP Platform

AFP and IPDS support speed, personalization and output integrity

How can it help your business?

• Print cost-effective, customized color transaction statements at high speed and eliminate pre-printed forms. AFP enables printers to print lines, rules, boxes, images, graphical objects and more that can be customized for each statement.
• Accommodate third-party solutions that provide document formatting functions and variable content based on customer database information.
• Integrate with existing statement systems and obtain scalability in performance and capacity with parallel processing of pages and objects on the pages.
• Integrate with pre- and post-processing equipment to obtain a means of managing workflow devices, from printers all the way to inserters.
• Use with InfoPrint^® Manager software to transform most data streams to most printers and to create print and electronic output in the same workflow.