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Your enterprise might probably manage its business with legacy mainframe and midrange computer systems. You can also take advantage of distributing printing for workgroups without adding costly IPDS / AFP (Advanced Function Printing) compatible printers or replacing software applications.

 

An example of IPDS emulation is software IPDS simulation, that is to use a software package without additional investment on hardware to turn your existing laser printers or multi-function printer (MFP) devices into IPDS printers easily and reliably. The Virtual IPDS Printer software emulates your existing or new printers as IPDS printers in the way they process IPDS spooled files and print jobs sent directly from your IBM AS/400 - iSeries or Mainframe - zSeries hosts.

 

Virtual IPDS Printer and IPDS Print Server are two software programs that enable laser printers or multi-function printer (MFP) devices to print AFP/IPDS print jobs over an Ethernet LAN.  This winning combination provides high level AFP/IPDS printing from an IBM AS/400 and Mainframe system.

 

There might be hardware IPDS emulation solutions out there such as the DIMM Card Solution, however, it requires you to invest heavily on the DIMM card to be inserted into your printer's memory slot.

 

Virtual IPDS Printer and IPDS Print Server software supports variety of non-IPDS printers from companies like IBM, HP, Lexmark, Epson, Canon, Lexmark, Kodak, Ricoh, Sharp, Xerox, Konica, Kyocera-Mita, and InfoPrint.