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An Open
Presentation Architecture
AFP is an integrated hardware and software
architecture developed by IBM, used by most enterprises since 1984, it is an Industry standard for high speed/performance mission-critical
presentation. It is an open, published, object-oriented,
device-independent architecture.
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Most Efficient Presentation Data
Stream
AFP object-oriented data stream is the most efficient
presentation data stream for both centralized production
printing and distributed printing, as well as
document archiving and contents management. AFP data
stream is generally a third of the size of a Postscript
or PCL, and can be archived in high performance and
compression ratio.
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Full Integrity and Resources
Management
With AFP page-level print monitoring and error
recovery on IPDS (Intelligent Printer Data Stream)
printers, AFP provides:
- Complete data and print integrity
- Full page-level error recovery
- Advanced resource management by system for high
speed printing
- Real bi-directions communication between AFP print
servers and printers
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Streamline Output Business
As a renovated and dynamic presentation open
architecture, AFP can evolve with improvements and
breakthroughs in technology, and incorporate with other
industry formats, including TrueType/ OpenType fonts,
EPS, PDF, TIFF, GIF, JPEG, XML, XSL, PostScript, PCL and
PPML to cover the entire range of text, images, graphics,
full colors, highlight colors and monochrome printing.
AFP empowers you with:
- Workflow management
- Printing variable data at very high speeds
- Integration with the existing statement systems
- Creation and management of personalized contents
- Use of up to 256-level grayscale for monochrome
printing
- Full color capability including ICC-based color
management
- Delivery of information in your choice of format
by high performance transformation from AFP
- High performance document content management
- Print cost-effective, customized color transaction
statements at high speed and eliminate pre-printed
forms
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Color the Future Outputs
To protect your significant color investment,
products and solutions must be based on open standards
that must have the capability to enable your output
business to grow and thrive consistently.
The AFP Color Consortium comprising of over 30
members from the industry's leading hardware and
software vendors formed in October 2004, is a
cross-industry effort to establish AFP as the premier
presentation architecture for variable data color
production printing. It empowers you with the following advantages:
- Achieve hardware and software compatibility across
different vendors' products
- A comprehensive color management capability within
the AFP architecture
- Meet customers demand of accurate colors regardless of the
output devices
- Meet customers demand of consistent colors across
multi-vendor configurations and workflow's
- Flexible, cost-efficient and reliable color
printing in high performance at a very fast speed
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