Re: AFP/IPDS laser printers

[Pat Barber <mboceanside@xxxxxxx>]

Fairly easy "not" using a IPDS printer.

After installing AFP print driver on your PC.
Install 5770TS1 on your machine.

1. Create Overlay using Draw.(Open Office)
2. Print Overlay using AFP printer from above
    That will create a file that needs to be converted.
3. Using Navigator open AFP Manager
4. Open import overlay using the file created in step 2.
5. You now have a overlay on the machine ready to be used
     with your print program.
6. You can go directly to a PDF using ovrprtf.

I prefer Lexmark printers and there are many that will meet your needs.

It sounds more complicated than it really is.


On 10/31/2013 5:28 AM, Mike Cunningham wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a good IP laser printer that supports AFP/IPDS printing? We want to create overlays with our spooled output and then send to a printer. Looking to eliminate a proprietary Xerox printer language we use to create overlays now and get back to something more universal. We current create overlays to use with emailing some documents (POs) but when we print POs we use preprinted forms. We are on V7.1. We have not done this but think we could use the built in PDF output and associate it with an AFP output queue and then FTP a PDF to any printer that supports receiving an FTP of a PDF. But just having an AFP/IPDS compatible printer sounds a lot easier. Color is not needed but could be useful. 70-80 page per minute range on the printer.