Understanding common features

These InfoPrint Manager features are available on all platforms:

  • Fully functional version of the InfoPrint Manager server
  • Impositioning, that is, arranging pages so they appear in proper sequence after press sheets are folded and bound
  • Interoperability with other InfoPrint Manager servers (AIX, Linux, or Windows)
  • BSD and PSF device support systems
  • Support for these input document formats:
    • AFP
    • ASCII
    • DBCS ASCII
    • GIF
    • JPEG
    • Line data (EBCDIC)
    • PCL (PCL 6 and earlier)
    • PDF Version 1.7 and earlier
    • PostScript Level 3 and earlier
    • TIFF
    • SAP ABAP and OTF
    • XML
    • DITROFF
  • Adobe PostScript transform
  • PCL transform
  • XML transform
  • Full event notification
  • InfoPrint Manager Notifications to enable client systems to receive messages from InfoPrint Manager server systems
  • The InfoPrint Manager Administration GUI for doing most administrative tasks
  • The InfoPrint Manager Operations GUI for doing operator tasks
  • InfoPrint Manager Web Administration Interface and InfoPrint Manager Web Management Interface
  • InfoPrint Select client for job submission
  • A powerful command-line interface to all InfoPrint Manager features
  • Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) support
  • MVS Download for job submission from z/OS, OS/390, and MVS host systems
  • InfoPrint Page Printer Formatting Aid (PPFA)
  • The pdaccount command, which you can use to generate comma-delimited reports of print server data to be fed into spreadsheets
  • Configurable transform support (through transform objects)
  • InfoPrint Manager: SAP Print Feature, which includes the SAP Output Management Support (OMS) and the sap2afp transform.
  • The IPP Gateway for printing from an Internet Print Protocol (IPP) client system to printers that are not IPP-enabled
  • Support for the IPP to allow InfoPrint Manager to access a printer using a Uniform Resource Indicator (URI) string