IBM 130 Plus User Manual

A single integrated system to power personalization
of statement and marketing collateral printing.

IBM Infoprint Color 130 Plus
Full Color Digital Printer

Highlights

State-of-the-art Advanced
Function Presentation (AFP)
system designed for complex,
variable content full-color printing

Production workflow is automated,
eliminating operator involvement
in the ripping process

System can automatically be
restarted on the last page printed
— no need to re-run the whole job

AFP manages every object on
a page from the output server
to print completion, helping to
ensure data integrity

Up to 138 full-color impressions
per minute with 300 lpi screening
for superior print quality

Groundbreaking technology

The IBM
powers personalized communications
with groundbreaking technology that
provides the ability to print fully variable
content pages at very high print speeds
and excellent print quality. Support for
variable data allows each copy of the
print run to be made unique with
individualized images and data. This
Advanced Function Presentation
system uses Infoprint Manager for AIX
or Print Services Facility™ (PSF™) for S/390
to manage printing on the Infoprint Color
130 Plus. These technologies can help
lower the cost of operation and provide
the user with the control, power, and
flexibility required by the e-business world.

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Infoprint® Color 130 Plus

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(AFP™)

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The way you’ve always wanted
a printer to work

Advanced Function Presentation
provides features that can help lower
operation costs, ensure data integrity,
and simply cause the printer to behave
like you’ve always thought printers
should. For example, AFP allows the
production workflow to be automated.
Traditional color printing systems require
operators to manage image objects and
the ripping process. The Infoprint Color

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130 Plus system manages the caching
of image objects and the entire ripping
process. Operators do not need to
manage RIP servers or track each job
from rip pin g through prin ting.

Prints applications utilizing AFP,
Adobe PostScript 3 and PDF 1.3

New printer controller incorporates
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BM RISC hardware with RIP
control software to maximize
multiprocessing power

Fully automated density and
registration system for more
efficient operation and consistent
print quality

Response rates can increase dramatically with variable
data pictures, product offerings and text messages that
are unique to a specific customer.

IBM patented technology enables powerful RIP
and print performance, delivering highly complex,
fully variable content at high speeds.

Efficiency in printing
variable content

When every page is unique, automatic
page level recovery increases printing
efficiency. If an error occurs in the middle
of a job, AFP page level control allows the
job to be continued, starting from the
page where the error occurred rather
than re-running the job. If a failure occurs
on page 4,999 of a 10,000 page job, the
job can be restarted or redirected to
another Infoprint Color 130 Plus. In either
case, because page level error recovery
is automated, printing will start on page
4,999 automatically under system control.
Page level error recovery, when compared
to systems that provide job level recovery,
can significantly reduce production costs
associated with waste from lost pages
and labor required to re-create print jobs.

Data integrity for variable content

For variable content jobs it is crucial that
the right data — images, text, fonts, colors
— are printed on the right page. AFP
provides management of the content so
that you know, for example, that each
customer’s statement printed with the
right information on it. Because AFP
manages every object from the output

server through the printer, job tickets
cannot be mixed accidentally.

Leveraging your investment in
PostScript graphics

The Infoprint Color 130 Plus, in
combination with IBM’s AFP architecture
and enhancements to IBM’s Infoprint
Manager and PSF/MVS

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sof twa re, a llow s
you to turn your data into 1:1 marketing
tools with graphic arts quality. Variable

data objects created from graphic arts
and design applications, including
QuarkXPress
PageMaker

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, Adobe® InDesign™ and

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can be used in AFP color
applications. The Infoprint Color 130 Plus
has the ability to print full-color applications
that use EPS (Encapsulated PostScript),
TIFF, GIF, and JPEG input as resources for
variable data documents.

Support for a broad range
of applications

With Infoprint Manager for AIX included in
the solution, Infoprint Color 130 Plus can
print full-color applications generated in
Adobe PostScript

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Level 3™ and PDF 1.3.
All the benefits of AFP’s job management
and page level error recovery capabilities
are available for full-color PostScript high­volume production applications.

The Infoprint Color 130 Plus combines the data integrity and resource
management capabilities of AFP with the graphics strength of PostScript.

High-throughput,
personalized printing

At the heart of the Infoprint Color 130 Plus
solution is the Advanced Function
Common Control Unit

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(AF CCU™), which
sup por ts a broade r ra nge of varia ble
content applications on a single system at
speeds up to 30 percent faster than our
previous offering. Cutting edge technology,
the AFCCU printer controller incorporates
IBM’s latest RISC technology. The controller