The varioPRINT 140 Series contains SRA version B16P7 (07.14.12) controller technology. The SRA print controller represents the next generation of the Océ Scalable Raster Architecture (SRA) series. This SRA technology is integrated in the PRISMAsync controller. The SRA technology adds the IPDS Page Description Language.
The varioPRINT 140 Series does not use APPE.
Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) is an IBM architecture and family of associated host and printer, software and hardware. The architecture consists of a set of rules and conventions governing creation, viewing, printing and control of data types like text, font, image, graphics, bar code, fax and colour.
The AFP data stream (AFPDS) provides document and information presentation control, independently of applications and devices. The interchange architecture, called MO:DCAP (Mixed Object Document Content Architecture-Presentation), makes information interchange possible among different platforms like IBM mainframe and AS/400.
The varioPRINT 140 Series supports the MO:DCA interchange set (called IS/3) to ensure that all IS/3-compliant documents can be printed.
In the figure below, the basic components of AFP printing are depicted. The right side of the figure shows the most common used data streams processed by AFP. The left side of the figure shows the five types of resources. The data stream and resources are processed by the Print Service Facility (PSF).
The PSF is the printer driver programme which:
Takes the data from the system spool
Combines it with the resources needed to print
Sends the result to the printer
Manages resources
Supports error recovery
The data stream sent from the PSF to the AFP printer is called Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS).