OVERVIEW

InfoPrint XT for AIX

Efficient legacy migration. Intelligent design.

InfoPrint XT for AIX 5L InfoPrint XT for AIX helps you migrate efficiently from your legacy Xerox print environment to Advanced Function Presentation™ (AFP™) capabilities. E-business requirements will grow, so it makes sense to move from traditional print to electronic distribution sooner rather than later. With InfoPrint^® XT for AIX^®, you can easily transform Xerox datastreams to AFP. Print to distributed Intelligent Printer Data Stream™ (IPDS™) and Adobe^® and PCL devices. Boost productivity for distributed printing in a Xerox environment.

Highlights

Transforms Xerox metacode and LCDS to AFP via Download for OS/390^®, TCP/IP (lpr) or other file transfer protocols.
Includes resource management tools for easy migration of fonts, forms and images.
Allows for distributed IPDS and PCL printing of legacy applications.
Enables single datastream application printing in a multi-vendor print environment.
Leverages the benefits of AFP in system resource management and error recovery.
Combines with InfoPrint Manager V4.2 for AIX 5L to provide a powerful, multi-function print server that can accept input from numerous datastreams, including Xerox LCDS and metacode with DJDEs, and direct output to a variety of printers.

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FEATURES AND BENEFITS

InfoPrint XT for AIX

Efficient legacy migration. Intelligent design.

Feature	Benefits
Smooth migration	Take advantage of rich, open, system-managed architecture designed to deliver high-quality printing and increase productivity. AFP™ provides comprehensive resource management and error recovery to help reduce the time operators spend setting up and managing print jobs, without programmer assistance. With InfoPrint^® XT, you can support continuous–form and cutsheet printers with one datastream.
Resource management tools	Save time by loading current Xerox resources easily – and once – for attached printers. Place fonts, forms, logos and images on the InfoPrint server manually via file transfer or diskette.
Works with InfoPrint Manager software	Use InfoPrint XT with InfoPrint Manager and acquire even more job management functions via an intuitive GUI to support faster throughput. Stop and start printers. Pause, redirect and reprint jobs. Manage job and printer characteristics. Use a command-line interface that provides access to its functions from the InfoPrint server console and non-graphical displays.

SPECIFICATIONS

InfoPrint XT for AIX

Efficient legacy migration. Intelligent design.

Adding flexibility to traditional Xerox print environments

Competing effectively in today’s e-business environment requires new, more efficient ways to deliver information. A growing number of companies are moving from traditional print to electronic distribution, and are looking for flexible ways to handle a variety of data formats and incorporate printers from multiple vendors.

InfoPrint^® XT™ for AIX^® delivers output flexibility by allowing you to easily transform traditional Xerox datastreams to AFP™, and print to distributed Intelligent Printer Data Stream™ (IPDS™), Adobe^® PostScript^®1 and PCL devices. InfoPrint XT helps maximize the productivity of your data-processing resources by automating much of the migration from Xerox host datastreams to IPDS, as well as by providing a solution for distributed printing in a Xerox print environment.

Leveraging the advantages of AFP

InfoPrint XT for AIX provides a smooth migration to AFP – a rich, open, system-managed architecture designed to deliver high-quality printing on a variety of InfoPrint Solutions Company IPDS printers and to increase printing productivity. AFP’s comprehensive system management of resources and error recovery can help reduce the time your operators spend setting up and managing print jobs. Implementing new applications and changing existing output is easier with outbound page-formatting capabilities that don’t require programmer assistance. You can leverage new AFP capabilities to migrate to distributed printing, to support both continuous forms and cutsheet printers with one datastream, and to create one-to-one communications.

Changing datastreams without transforming your operation

InfoPrint XT for AIX can read legacy Xerox datastreams and convert them to a fully formatted AFP datastream and then print to IPDS and PCL devices, as necessary in multivendor and distributed print environments. And you can be confident that your applications will appear just as they do using the original datastreams.

With InfoPrint XT installed, InfoPrint Manager can accept LCDS or metacode via Download for OS/390™, TCP/IP (lpr) or other file transfer protocols. Resource management tools allow you to easily load your current Xerox resources—such as fonts, forms, logos and images—onto the InfoPrint server manually via file transfer or diskette. Resources only need to be loaded once for all attached printers – not once per printer.

InfoPrint XT for AIX works with InfoPrint Manager output management software, which provides job management functions from an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI). Through the interface, you can easily stop and start printers, pause, redirect and reprint jobs, and manage job and printer characteristics.

InfoPrint XT for AIX also features a command-line interface that provides access to its functions from the InfoPrint server console and non-graphical displays.