AFP Consortium publishes new version of the Image Object Content Architecture (IOCA) Reference
BOULDER, Colo., May 18, 2022 – The Advanced Function Presentation Consortium (AFP Consortium), an international consortium of print industry stakeholders working together to further enhance the Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) document architecture, is pleased to announce the availability of the eighth edition of the Image Object Content Architecture (IOCA) Reference, version AFPC-0003-08.
The leading image architecture for high-performance transaction printing, IOCA provides a consistent way to represent images in an AFP environment. The IOCA architecture can be used for scanning, displaying, archiving, and printing, using a flexible image description that allows images in an AFP document to be fully described in device- and process-independent terms. New in the eighth edition of the reference are two new function sets, one in support of nColor images and one in support of transparency masks used with an RGB image, as well as new support for nColor images and the TIFF LZW with Differencing Predictor compression algorithm. For details, please refer to the new reference on the AFP Consortium website: https://www.afpconsortium.org/publications.html
About AFP and the AFP Consortium
Advanced Function Presentation is a document architecture that offers performance, manageability and integrity benefits meeting the needs of large volume, variable data applications. AFP technology has historically been used for the production of mission critical documents such as bills, statements and policies and contains methods for job ticketing, effective server-based resource management and the powerful Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS) for total output integrity. In addition to being a rich, self- contained native document language, AFP is also a powerful container architecture capable of bringing full resource and production management capabilities to bear on encapsulated formats such as PDF and TIFF.
The AFP Consortium is an international open standards body consisting of around 30 companies committed to the continued development of the AFP architecture. Since 2004, the AFP Consortium has developed open standards for accurate and consistent ICC-based color management, high-speed complex text, page group recovery within high-volume production, the IS/3 interchange set for compliance, and metadata support for AFP Archive and future applications, such as accessibility features. The AFP Consortium will continue in its role to grow and maintain the complete set of AFP architecture.
For more information, visit the AFP Consortium website: https://www.afpconsortium.org
The leading image architecture for high-performance transaction printing, IOCA provides a consistent way to represent images in an AFP environment. The IOCA architecture can be used for scanning, displaying, archiving, and printing, using a flexible image description that allows images in an AFP document to be fully described in device- and process-independent terms. New in the eighth edition of the reference are two new function sets, one in support of nColor images and one in support of transparency masks used with an RGB image, as well as new support for nColor images and the TIFF LZW with Differencing Predictor compression algorithm. For details, please refer to the new reference on the AFP Consortium website: https://www.afpconsortium.org/publications.html
About AFP and the AFP Consortium
Advanced Function Presentation is a document architecture that offers performance, manageability and integrity benefits meeting the needs of large volume, variable data applications. AFP technology has historically been used for the production of mission critical documents such as bills, statements and policies and contains methods for job ticketing, effective server-based resource management and the powerful Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS) for total output integrity. In addition to being a rich, self- contained native document language, AFP is also a powerful container architecture capable of bringing full resource and production management capabilities to bear on encapsulated formats such as PDF and TIFF.
The AFP Consortium is an international open standards body consisting of around 30 companies committed to the continued development of the AFP architecture. Since 2004, the AFP Consortium has developed open standards for accurate and consistent ICC-based color management, high-speed complex text, page group recovery within high-volume production, the IS/3 interchange set for compliance, and metadata support for AFP Archive and future applications, such as accessibility features. The AFP Consortium will continue in its role to grow and maintain the complete set of AFP architecture.
For more information, visit the AFP Consortium website: https://www.afpconsortium.org
