| Feature |
Benefits |
| Fully integrated, automated, system-managed printing. |
- To help ensure that your output is printed accurately and completely, without missing or duplicate pages, and to meet critical print windows, PSF provides full resource management and page-level error recovery.
- When PSF printers are defined in the Printer Inventory with the Infoprint® Server feature of z/OS®, operators can easily monitor print jobs and printers from an easy-to-use Web-based graphical interface.
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| AFP™ Download Plus for PSF. |
Automate the process for generating print-ready files. As a result, you can help reduce the likelihood of errors, accelerate print outsourcing, support business recovery, balance workloads and reduce operational costs. |
| Output processing in a variety of formats, including traditional MVS™ line data, AFP data stream, unformatted print records and XML. |
Skip the time and expense of re-programming applications. PSF and supporting AFP software let you re-format applications to add electronic forms, change fonts, move data around and more. |
| Integration with Infoprint Server for z/OS and the Infoprint Transform products. |
- Add the reliability and control of system-managed printing to your LAN-based print workloads, and at the same time, leverage your investment in AFP printers.
- Jobs submitted to Infoprint Server can be transformed from a variety of common data streams including PCL, PostScript® and PDF into AFP. Or AFP applications can be transformed into PCL, PostScript or PDF for printing on non-AFP distributed printers, for e-mailing, or for Web presentation.
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| Support for standard TrueType and OpenType font technologies. |
- Standardize your entire printing and presentation environment on a single font technology
- Eliminate the problems associated with font substitution
- Create documents using the same fonts used in PC-based graphics and composition programs
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| Support for printing Unicode data. |
Because TrueType and OpenType font technologies are now incorporated into AFP architecture and product, you can print application output encoded in the Unicode standard for global language support. |
Productivity tools¹
- AFP Conversion and Indexing Facility (ACIF) feature
- AFP Upload feature
- Download for z/OS
- AFP Statistics (AFPSTATS) report
- PSF display functions
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Save time managing print applications and boost the efficiency of your printer operations.
PSF productivity tools can help you:
- Manage applications for archival systems
- Move jobs between z/OS and AIX™ systems
- Produce detail and summary reports of application resources and characteristics
- Display TCP/IP status and printer information
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| Support for color applications using industry standard AFP architecture with
end-to-end color management |
- A strong color management foundation using industry-standards built into the
AFP architecture.
- Consistent color output across different devices and data streams.
- Flexible control of color content at many levels of the job or document.
- System management of color objects to enable very high-speed production printing
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