Xerox 701P47301 User Manual

June 2007

701P47301

Xerox FreeFlow

Print Server

IBM® IPDS User Guide

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Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-1

Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-2

Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server Support for the IPDS Data Stream . . .1-2

Printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-2

Printer Model Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-3

Host Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-3

Host Connec ti v ity Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-3

Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPS Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-3

Installation and Setup 2

Software Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-1

User Access Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-1

Licensing Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-2

Defining the Target Queue in the Print Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-2

Setting System Preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-2

Creating an IPDS Target Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-3

Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-3

Setting External Finishers in the Printer Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-3

Managing the Print Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-4

Using Queue Overrides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-4

Virtual Printable Area Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-4

Queue Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-5

Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-5

Output. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-5

PDL Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-5

Halftone Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-5

Setting Up Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-7

Programming Stock Margins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-7

Loading IBM® AFP Resident Outline Fonts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-8

Enhanced Font Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-9

i5/OS® (System i) Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-10

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Defining a Logical Printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-10

Verifying the Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-10

Printing a Trace Job Wi thin IPS Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-11

Printing a Test Job From the Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-12

Using Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPS Manager 3

IPS Manager Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-1

Logging Onto the IPS Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-1

IPS Manager Menu Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-1

File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-1

System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-2

Go Offline / Go Online . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-2

Stop / Continue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-2

System Conf ig u ration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-2

Manage Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-4

Trace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-5

Restart IPS Gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-5

Job Profile Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-6

Job Settings Functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-6

Tray Mappings Funct ions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-8

Define the Ph ys ic a l Tray Stock Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-9

Map Virtual Trays for Loaded Stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-9

Map Virtual Trays for Non-Fusing Stock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-10

Mapping Sto ck for Use in Fusing and Non-Fusing Trays . . . . . . .3-11

For Non-Printing Application Data Only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-11

For Printing and Non-Printing Applicati on Data . . . . . . . . . . .3-11

Stacker Mappings Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-12

Host Speci fied Stacking / Printer Specified Stacking . . . . . . . . . .3-12

Mapping the IPDS Output Bins to Physical Destinations . . . . . . .3-13

Creating Stacker Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-13

Saving the Job Profile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-14

Open a Job Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-15

Delete a Job Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-15

Run Time Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-16

Interaction Between Streaming and Spooling Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-16

IPDS Jobs and Paused Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-16

Page Count Reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-17

Multiple Copy Page Counting Constraints and Considera tions . .3-18

Page Counting Constraints and Considera tions. . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-19

Canceling IPDS Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-20

IPDS Sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-22

Background Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-22

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Barcode Symbology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-22

Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPDS Network Connectivity Appendix A

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-1

Configuring IBM z/OS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-1

TCP/IP Configuration Overview - z/OS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-1

Channel Configuration Overview - z/OS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-2

Reference Documents - z/OS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-3

Configuring IBM i5/OS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-3

Configuration Overview - i5/OS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-3

Reference Documents - i5/OS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-4

Configuring IBM Infoprint Manager for AIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-4

Configuration Overview - AIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-4

Reference Documents - AIX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-5

Configuring IBM Infoprint Manager for Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-5

Configuration Overview - Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-5

Reference Documents - Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-6

Testing the Printer Connection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-6

Performance Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-7

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1 Introduction

The Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IBM® IPDS User Guide describes the Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server Intelligent Printer Data Stream support. IPDS is a print data stream defined by IBM®.

This guide describes Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server support for IBM’s IPDS including various system men us, setup routines, operator commands for running print jobs, system supported environments, font management, hos t connectivity, and diagnostic trace capabilities.

NOTE: Xerox FreeFlow Print Server IPDS requires a software license. If your system does not have the Xerox FreeFlow Print Server IPDS license, you will not see any of the IPDS dialogs and the IPS Manager menu will not appear in the system menu. Contact your Customer Service Engineer (CSE) in order to obtain an Xerox FreeFlow Print Server IPDS soft ware license.

Introduction

Overview

The primary audience for this document is the system administrator or the individ ual(s) responsible for managing the print production environment.

Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS) is a bi-directional print data stream defined by IBM®. IPDS is a sequence of information transmitted between a host c omputer and IPDS print er as directed by a print driver, such as IBM’s Print Service Facility (PSF). In addition to delivering print description information, the IPDS data stream performs printer control functions and shares job status information.

The Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPDS software is configu red by means of a Graphical User Interface (GUI), featuring pul l-down menus, tabs, and icons from which to manage the Xerox Fre eFlow Print Server IPDS functions. Xerox FreeFlow Print Server IPDS supports the TCP/IP and Online Channel interfaces.

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Features

Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server Support for the IPDS Data Stream

Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPDS supports IPDS resulting from processing of AFP (Advanced Function Presentation) resources such as print data sets, page definitions, form definitions, page segments, fonts, and overlays. There are several IBM® data architectures within the AFP environment that are fully supported by Xerox FreeFlow Print Server IPDS:

• MO: DCA-P: Mixed Object Document Content Architecture for presentation

• PTOCA PT1, P T2, and P T3: Presentation Text Object Content Architecture

• IOCA: Image Object Content Architecture

• GOCA: Graphics Object Content Architecture

Printers

• BCOCA: Bar Code Object Content Architecture

Each of the data ob jects foll ows the same obj ect rule of cont aini ng delimited fields within the structure fields describing each object.

IPDS commands within the data stream enable the system to control the media-handling capabilities of the printer and other operations dealing with paper. The commands also provide the means for managing the downloading of fonts and stored objects, such as overlays and page segments th at are required to print an application.

Xerox FreeFlow Print Server IPDS provides the abil ity to:

• Properly image all supported IPDS resources.

• Recognize and process all required IPDS commands supported by the Xerox FreeFlow Print Server.

IPDS data stream printing is supported on a variety of Xerox production devices with Xerox FreeFlow Print Server, including light production, production monochrome, highlight color, and color printers .

NOTE: Xerox FreeFlow Print Server IPDS currently does not support continuous feed printing systems.

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Printer Model Selection

The Xerox FreeFlow Print Server IPDS support allows the print server to be defined to the host as one of the following IBM® Advanced Function Printers: 3812, 3825, 3827, or 3935.

NOTE: In addition to the predefined values, the type-in field also supports any user-defined four digit value.

Host Environments

Xerox FreeFlow Print Server IPDS support s the fol lowing environments:

• InfoPrint® Manager with AIX 5L (TCP/IP connectivity only)

• InfoPrint® Manager for Windows®

• Print Services Facility for i5/OS® (OS/400®) (TCP/IP connectivity only)

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• Print Services Facility for z/OS® (MVS)

• Emtex VIP (NOTE: monochrome and highlight color pri n ters only)

• GMC PrintNet T (NOTE: monochrome printers only)

Host Connectivity Options

Xerox FreeFlow Print Server IPDS ca n r eceive dat a fr om a host in one of two ways:

• Through a channel card with bus and tag connectivity

• Through a TCP/IP interface using Ethernet

Host Connectivity options depend on the print server and printer configuration. If you require host connectivity using a channel interface, contact your local Xerox representative to confirm that this option is available for your device and to obtain the additional hardware.

Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPS Ma nager

The IPS Manager is a feature of Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server and is accessible through the main print server GUI System pulldown menu.

The IPS Manager provides job setting, t ray mappings, an d stacker mappings options. It also allows system configuration for TCP/IP and channel connections. Additionally, it allows the user to

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manage fonts, capture IPDS trace files, and restart the IPS gateway.

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2 Installation and Setup

The requirements and instructions for installing the Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPDS software and setting up the printing environment are described in this section. Review this entire chapter before proceeding with the installation.

Some setup tasks are performed on the print serve r window and some are performed on the print server IPS Manager. The main installation and setup tasks are:

• Licensing and configuring the software and features

• Defining the print server IPDS queue

• Setting up media

• Loading IBM® AFP resident outline fonts (opti onal)

• Defining a logical printer

• Verifying the installation

Software Requirements

Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server, version 6.0 or higher. If your Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPDS configuration requires

a channel connection, you will need an online channel board. Contact your local Xerox representative for more information.

User Access Levels

Access to the IPS Manager is controlled by the print server logon level. Three user levels ar e avail able to access Xero x Fre eFlow® Print Server IPS Manager, each with its own level of feature access.

User/Operator: The User and the Operator have limited access

rights to the IPS Manager. This is the access level assigned when IPS Manager is first started.

The User or the Operator can do the following:

• Modify and apply settings in the Job Settings, Tray Mappings and Stacker Mappings tabs, and the System Configuration window.

• Use the Manage Job Profiles button to invoke the Job Profile Editor dialog.

• Load a Job Profile through the Job Profile Editor.

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• Select Go Online and Go Offline.

• Select S top or Continue.

• Restart IPS Gateway

System Administrator: The system administrator requires a

password and can perform the same functions as the Operator. Additionally, the system administrator can:

• Capture or replay a Trace file.

• Load, print, or delete resid ent fonts.

Licensing Requirements

The Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPDS feature must be licensed in order for it to func tion.

Your local Xerox representative provides licenses prior to installation. The Xerox service representative enters the license string and expiration date for each license, immediately following the software installation.

Defining the Target Queue in the Print Server

At least one queue must be created on the Xer ox FreeFlow® Pri nt Server for processing the IPDS data. Queues used for IPDS must be defined as streaming queues. Refer to the Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server on-line help for det ails on cre ating a streaming queue .

Setting System Preferences

The system behavior for jobs or s et s tha t exc eed the cap a cit y of a finisher can be selected in the System Preferences di alog. To reach this dialog, select [System Preferences] from the System pull-down on the main GUI. Select the Job Policy tab. Under Over Limit Finishing, check Pr int Job Unf inished. I f the [Faul t Job] or [User Intervention] option in the Over Li mit Finishing panel are selected, when an over limit finis hin g si tuati on is enc ountered, t he printer informs the host that a print er fault is raised and intervention is required. This causes the host to stop sending dat a. In these cases, it is typically necessar y to terminate the job at the print server. However, terminating the job at the print server does not clear it from an IPDS host output queue, and the host will retransmit the data unless the job is also terminated at the host.

NOTE: The Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPDS doe s not suppor t Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server Remote Workflow.

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Creating an IPDS Target Queue

In the Queue Manager, select [New] from the Queue drop down menu, or from the short cut icon. Refer to t he foll owing pr operti es to make selections for IPDS queue.

Settings

Although Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server suppor ts spooling jobs, as well as streaming for other Printer Descripti on Languages (PDLs), only streaming is supported for IPDS. This is because IPDS job recovery is cont rolled by the host, and depends upon the host receiving messages fro m the printer t elling it when ea ch page has been printed. This level of host control cannot be achieved when jobs are spooled.

You must select a streaming printer queue in the IPS Manager to be used for IPDS printing. A streaming queue processes and prints pages as they are received, which results in minimal delay between the time the job is submitted and when printing begins.

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• Select the Input / Format FAB. Under Input, select [Streaming].

The Limit Ripped Data checkbox in the Input / For mat FAB should always be left unchecked for queues used for IPDS.

Setting External Finishers in the Printer Manager

Determine if the system contains an external finisher. If the system contains an external finisher, open the Printer Manager and select the Finisher tab. Right-click on the external finisher and select [Properties]. Under Maximum Set Size, the default setting is 65000. Set the value to the actual maximum set size of the external finisher, otherwise performance issues may be encountered.

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Managing the Print Queue

Using Queue Overrides

The IPDS information processed by the IPDS gateway is sent to the Output queue selected in the IPS Manager. Use the Queue Manager to view and manage the queue properties applied to jobs. Under the PDL Settings tab, the IPDS FAB on the Queue Manager dialog may be used to set the res olut ion of the print dat a supplied to the print engine. Values of 300 or 600 dpi may be selected.

While you may want to dedicate a queue to IPDS, the queue may still be used for other PDLs, subject to the rules of the print server job and queue management. The PDL Format must not be set to override for any PDL other than IPDS for a queue that is used to print IPDS jobs.

NOTE: Setting the Override lock for IPDS will force all job data to be processed as IPDS, preventing the queue from processing non-IPDS jobs.

Note that a number of p ri nt server queue properties can affect the attributes of the printed job. In an IPDS environment, the host is typically responsible for contr olling the attributes of the printed data. Changing the attributes of the job could cause Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPDS data to print incor rectly. Setting queue defaults for such properties does not interfere with the values selected by the IPS Manager. However, overrides for the following queue properties must be avoided:

• Stock attributes (Name, Size, Color, Type, Weight)

• Output Location

Virtual Printable Area Considerations

Ordinarily an IPDS printer is expected to report exceptions to the host when data on a page does not fit within the virtual printable area (VPA). The following queue attributes are not used in Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPDS VPA calculations and can result in data being shifted or rotated out of the printable area without notifying the host.

• Rotation

• Image Shift

• Alignment

KEY POINT: Use the Stock Margins feature for shifting data and having it used as part of the VPA calculations.

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NOTE: If an image shift is done at the IPDS queue level, then the banner page of the IPDS job will contain the image shift as well. Therefore, the data on the banner page may be shifted off the page.

Queue Properties

Following are selections relating to IPDS queues:

Settings

Select the Input / Format Feature Access Button (FAB). Under Input, select [Streaming].

Output

The default setting for the Output Order is System Specified. For most products, this is N-1 (Descending) output order.

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NOTE: This setting can cause a problem if set processing (staple or some other finishing operation) is not being performed. The problem occurs because the streaming IPDS jo b may be too large to receive and re-order . The resul t of this sit uation is that, because there is no logical end to trigger the r e-order, a portion of the IPDS job would be received but not print. Unless N-1 is required to perform set processing, the Output Order should be changed to 1N (Ascending) output order.

PDL Settings

Select the IPDS FAB. Use Resolution to determine the resolution of the output data sent to the print engine. Only values of 300 and 600 dpi are supported. For print engines t hat do not have native support for 300 dpi, the output will be simulated.

Halftone Resolution

NOTE: The IPDS Halftone Resolution feature is available only for

all supported monochrome, and highlight color products.

In Advanced Settings window, the resolution and the associated Halftone are displayed. Select [Setup...] to choose the halftone, for instance, choose: 53, 85, or 106 li ne per inch screens. The actual selection of halftones offered depends on the particular product and resolution. For each resolution setting, select the halftone to associate from the pull-down menu. When the Resolution (dpi) is selected, the associated halftone screen will automatically be used for all jobs until it is changed.

For print resolution values that are also supported by PostScript, IPDS uses the same default Halftone selection used by

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PostScript. For instance, if PostScript uses a default halftone of 106 lpi for 600 dpi, the IPDS tool will use the same halftone value for Resolution of 600.

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Setting Up Media

Programming Stock Margins

Installation and Setup

If tray mapping is used on the IPS Manager to provide for stock switching on a per sheet basis, ensure that the override locks for the stock attributes are NOT set for the queue

Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server support s S toc k Margin adjustment s that are recognized by IPDS interpreter software. Stock Margins are specified in relati on to the pri nt engi ne process di re ction. This is the direction a sheet of paper move s through the print engine.

Stock Margins are programmed via the Stock Library using the Stock Comments field. Stock Margins settings are retained in the system as long as the stock remains def ined in the Stock Library. In cases where St ock Margins are not required for a given stock, text may be used in the Stock Comments field, but comments must not consist solely of numerical values.

NOTE: Stock Margins settings take affect only after selecting [Refresh] of the current Job Profile in IPS Manager.

When creating a new stock (or modifying an existing stock), enter the Stock Margins values in the Stock Comments field using the following rules:

1. In the St ock Library, open the Properties of the stock to be modified or select [New Stock] to create a new stock.

2. Select the Options FAB.

3. Enter four integer values into the Stock Comments field.

These integer values must be whole numbers - no decimal points are allowed.

• The Stock Margi n integer values must be separated by a

single space.

• Stock Margin values may be either positive or negative.

• Stock Margins are entered in units of 600 dots per inch.

The actual size of the margin does not depend on the job resolution.

• Stock margins values are entered in the following left-to-

right order: front side process direction, front side cross-

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