Table of Contents
1 Introduction ............................................................. 7
About This Guide ......................................................................................7
Sources of Useful IBM Information.....................................................7
Compatible System Attachments..............................................................8
Defining IPDS ...........................................................................................8
The Protocol.......................................................................................8
The Printer Environment .................................................................... 8
Emulations and Data Streams............................................................8
2 Configuring with IPDS Commands ......................... 9
Overview...................................................................................................9
The IPDS Emulation ................................................................................. 9
The Command Sets ...........................................................................9
The Data Towers..............................................................................10
The States ........................................................................................10
Processing a Page ........................................................................... 11
The Command Syntax .....................................................................12
The Text Commands........................................................................13
Load Equivalence (LE) ..............................................................13
Write Text (WT) .........................................................................13
Scalable Fonts .................................................................................15
XOA – Request Resource List (RRL) Reply ..............................15
Font Selection............................................................................15
Images .............................................................................................16
The IM Image Command Set ...........................................................16
Write Image Control (WIC) ........................................................16
Write Image (WI)........................................................................17
Graphics ...........................................................................................17
The Graphics Command Set............................................................ 18
Write Graphics Control (WGC) ..................................................18
Write Graphics (WG) .................................................................18
Bar Codes ........................................................................................18
The Bar Code Command Set ...........................................................19
Write Bar Code Control (WBCC) ...............................................19
Write Bar Code (WBC) .............................................................. 19
