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Print Services Facility for VSE/VM

Increases flexibility. Decreases costs.

Boost your Advanced Function Printing^™ (AFP^™) capabilities, enhance resource management, and error recovery. The Print Services Facility for VSE/VM can do it all. It improves operational flexibility, and reduces cost and increase productivity with robust functionality, With attachment options, content manipulation, paper handling features, and font support; Print Services Facility for VSE/VM was born to manage.

Highlights

Enable your growing business with support for TCP/IP distributed print attachment, barcodes and more.
Enhance applications with options to modify and manipulate content — variable page layouts, overlays, page segments and fonts for more effective document appearance.
Extend your AFP print capabilities to more InfoPrint Solutions Company printers.
Drive as many impact and label printers as you need with just one PSF Tier 1 license.
Boost productivity with system-managed resource downloading, page level error recovery, and automatic accounting.

Please contact your local InfoPrint Solutions Company representative or Solutions Partner for local availability.

FEATURES AND BENEFITS

Print Services Facility for VSE/VM

Increases flexibility. Decreases costs.

Feature	Benefit
AFP™ Conversion and Indexing Facility (ACIF)	Convert line or mixed mode print data into the platform-independent AFP datastream (MO:DCA-P) format. Enable electronic document storage with AFP resources. Add indexing to AFP data for fast access to individual documents in a print job.
Coordinated fonts in 240 and 300 dpi raster formats.	Fonts that can be ordered with PSF/VM and PSF/VSE let you print on a variety of printers at 240 or 300 dpi.
Support for more printers.	Extend Advanced Function Printing capabilities to the InfoPrint Solutions Company 6500 and 4247 families of impact printers, the 4400 and 6700 thermal label printers, workgroup printers, departmental and light production cutsheet printers from up to 60 to 105 ipm¹, and to the InfoPrint^® 4100 family of high-speed production printers.
ESCON^® and TCP/IP attachment support.	Improve data rate, physical path-length, and overall system connectivity options for local or distributed print.

Exact speed varies depending on document complexity, system configuration, software application, driver and printer state.

SPECIFICATIONS

Print Services Facility for VSE/VM

Increases flexibility. Decreases costs.

Page layout support (Page Definitions)

Support for System z® line data or unformatted print records
Support for relative printline positioning for more flexible page formatting
Multiple fonts for individual lines or fields, including outline fonts (printer resident only for VM)
Ability to suppress fields on specified copies of a report (with Form Definition)
Inclusion of a wide variety of bar code formats
Include and position overlays and page segments in a page definition
Conditional processing to change page layouts from page to page within a job
Support for color text, image and graphics.

Page handling support (Form Definitions)

Include electronic forms (overlays)
Include data or overlays that are "constant" on one or both sides of a page
Selection of simplex or duplex printing
Multiple input and output bin selection
Support for basic and enhanced n-up to automatically position multiple logical pages on a single physical form
Support for "cutsheet" emulation (CSE) to easily migrate applications from cutsheet to continuous forms printers

Connectivity options

ESCON® channel or TCP/IP attachment for printers (VM TCP/IP support is for Group 4 printers only)
Send host jobs to remote servers, such as InfoPrint® Manager for Windows® or AIX®, via Distributed Print Facility or PSF Direct