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IBM Print Services Facility (PSF) for z/OS

   
     
 
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Empowering color production output

A widely used z/OS®-based software offering for driving Advanced Function Presentation™ (AFP™) page printers, Print Services Facility™ (PSF) offers exceptional versatility to help you manage your production printing environment.

PSF Version 4 Release 2 introduces an end-to-end color production solution based on the industry standard AFP architecture for printing and presentation.

PSF V4R2 runs on z/OS V1R7 or later, and z/OS.e V1R7 or later releases.

 
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Print Services Facility (PSF) for z/OS


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Provides a wide variety of data formatting capabilities, including application independent page layouts, formatting of tagged print records, and XML data formatting.
Provides reports on information about the resources used to print a job to assist in moving applications, documenting recovery or outsourcing.
Provides reports listing the characteristics of each printer, allowing a quick determination of which printers can support a particular application.
Offers page-level error recovery, resource management and integrated accounting.
Helps you more easily migrate JES printers to PSF for z/OS-driven printers.
Supports printing of XML data on AFP production printers.
Supports printing Unicode-encoded application output via the use of TrueType and OpenType fonts.
Allows you the flexibility to prepare and move print jobs to other locations using an automated process to help save time, reduce risk, enhance security and lower operating cost for both sender and receiver.
Provides an end-to-end, managed workflow for color applications that makes high-quality color and grayscale output a reality, with consistent results across a variety of printers.




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