[330] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
Fwd: IP60 vs PS printers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lynne E. Durland)
Mon Jun 26 12:51:44 2000
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Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 12:52:01 -0400
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From: "Lynne E. Durland" <durland@MIT.EDU>
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>From: <jeffbant@us.ibm.com>
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>Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 11:55:07 -0400
>Subject: IP60 vs PS printers
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>Lynne, sorry for my poor response time. The biggest reason the IP60 is
>more expensive is that it is an IPDS printer which has a duty cycle of
>750,000 pages a month. This means it is built stronger than other
>printers. Second is the IP60's control unit is an Advanced Function Common
>Control Unit.(AFCCU). The AFCCU is an AIX based control unit residing
>within the printer that interfaces with PSF at the highest level of IPDS
>communication. Remember this printer doesn't really do PS. The IPM server
>sniffs the incoming data stream (PS in this case) and converts it to IPDS.
>The IPM server then compresses the IPDS image of the PS page (approx 30 to
>1) and sends the compressed image to the IP60 where a chip in the printer
>decompresses and prints the image at rated speed. While printing the file
>the printer constantly communicates with the IPM server indicating
>status/progress of the job. If the operator wanted to interrupt the
>currently running job, print another higher priority job and then resume
>the original job he could do so. All because of the IPDS communication
>between the IPM server (PSF) and the AFCCU. Additionally the AFCCU has the
>full complement of Font Collection fonts on-board and the ability to create
>Bar Codes on the fly from ASCII or EBCDIC data. This same printer can
>print service the host as well as the lan. It supports data types of PCL,
>AFP, ASCII, EBCDIC, JIF, TIF, SAP, etc converting all to IPDS by PSF and
>sending to the IP60. Job integrity is the value of IPDS where the correct
>and complete output is assured. jb
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>Jeff,
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>one of our team members, who works in the copy center, is getting some new
>hardware. He shared with us some of the information, which spawned the
>question: Why is the IP60 ~70K when cannon and another manufacturer makes
>postscript printers in the $20-25K range?
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>Same pages per minute.
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>Why is the ipds printer so much more?
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>Lynne
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>Jeff Banta
>IBM Printing Systems Division
>404 Wyman St.
>Waltham, Ma. 02454
>8-362-2295 / 781-895-2295
>fax 734-448-5932
>mobile 617-513-5400
>internet jeffbant@us.ibm.com
Lynne E. Durland
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