Empowering enterprise production output
IBM Print Services Facility™ (PSF) for z/OS
(5655-M32) is a z/OS-based print and output solution for Advanced Function
Presentation™ (AFP™) page printers. It
offers exceptional reliability and versatility to help you manage your
production printing environment.
PSF provides an end-to-end high-quality color
and black-and-white enterprise solution based on the industry standard open AFP
architecture. This latest release, PSF
Version 4 Release 4, provides support for: bar codes, Unicode output, Portable
Network Graphics (PNG) images, and IPv6 networking. In addition, PSF V4.4 supports the latest AFP
IS/3 standard for improved integration of multi-vendor AFP-based systems, and
improved color, image, and font management.
PSF V4.4 runs on z/OS V1.11, or later, with supported
levels of JES2 or JES3.
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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. |
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Provides reports on information about the resources
used to print a job to assist in moving applications, documenting
recovery or outsourcing. |
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Provides reports listing the characteristics of each
printer, allowing a quick determination of which printers can support a
particular application. |
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Offers page-level error recovery, resource management and integrated accounting. |
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Helps you more easily migrate JES printers to PSF for z/OS-driven printers. |
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Supports printing of XML data on AFP production printers. |
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Supports printing Unicode-encoded application output via the use of TrueType and OpenType fonts. |
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Supports printing of barcodes and Portable Newtork Graphics (PNG). |
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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 devices that
support this architecture. |
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Supports recent updates to the AFP industry architecture and makes these latest print standards available on z/OS, including
the latest AFP IS/3 standard. |
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Enhancements to AFP bar code processing to provide more flexibility in applications that use barcodes. |
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