Specifying the color rasterized image processor (RIP) on this server

Important: You only need to do this step if you will be submitting color PostScript print jobs to your InfoPrint 5000.

The RIP generates the data stream that InfoPrint Manager sends to the printer. By default, InfoPrint Manager uses a RIP that produces monochrome (black and white) documents. Therefore, you must specify the color RIP from the ps2afp data stream transform before you send color documents to your InfoPrint 5000.

To make the necessary configuration changes and start the color RIP, use this procedure:

  1. You first need to stop the ps2afpd daemon:
    1. Find the process id number: ps | grep ps2afp
    2. Stop the daemon: kill -9 <process id number>
  2. Edit the ps2afpd.cfg daemon transform configuration file that is located in the /usr/lpp/psf/ps2afp/ directory on the server using your editor of choice.
  3. Change the ps_output_type value to FS45, as shown in this example: 
    ps_output_type = FS45  # -a         type of AFP image to generate
  4. Save and close the file.
  5. Start the daemon again: 
    /usr/lpp/psf/bin/ps2afpd -C /usr/lpp/psf/ps2afp/ps2afpd.cfg
If you ever want to send monochrome print jobs to your InfoPrint 5000, you can stop the color RIP and start the monochrome RIP by changing the ps_output_type value back to the default value of IO1_G4, as shown in this example:
ps_output_type = IO1_G4  # -a         type of AFP image to generate
Parent topic: Configuring the PSF TCP/IP printer in InfoPrint Manager