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5 AS/400 Configuration for
an IPDS Printer
Configuring on AS/400 as an IPDS Printer
Use this chapter to configure your IBM 6400 printer on AS/400 as an
IDPS printer. To print IPDS, you must install the IPDS option on your
printer. Once configured as an IPDS printer, the printer can also print
AFP* and SCS, but these datastreams must be converted to IPDS first.
See “Printing AFP, IPDS, and SCS Files”, below.
Printing AFP, IPDS, and SCS Files
IBM 6400 network printers configured as IPDS only print IPDS files. AFP
and SCS files can be printed, but they must be transformed to IPDS
before printing.
• APF files are transformed directly by Print Services Facility*
(PSF/400, an integrated feature of OS/400), which then sends the
transformed file to the printer.
• SCS files are transformed into IPDS by setting the IPDSPASTHR
parameter to YES (see Figure 9 on page 58 or Figure 10 on page 61).
This path yields the best performance by sending IPDS files directly
to the printer with no transform.