AFP Consortium publishes new versions of the IPDS and MO:DCA References central to the AFP architecture
BOULDER, Colo., June 28, 2023 – The Advanced Function Presentation Consortium (AFP Consortium), an international consortium of print industry stakeholders working to further enhance the Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) document architecture, has announced the simultaneous availability of the thirteenth edition of the Intelligent Print Data Stream Reference (IPDS) Reference, version AFPC-0001-12, and the eleventh edition of the Mixed Object Document Content Architecture (MO:DCA) Reference, version AFPC-0004-10.
IPDS and MO:DCA are the heart of the AFP Architecture; releasing them simultaneously helps ensure that the changes to AFP are consistently represented in both References. Highlights described in these References include support for:
For more details, please refer to these new references 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
IPDS and MO:DCA are the heart of the AFP Architecture; releasing them simultaneously helps ensure that the changes to AFP are consistently represented in both References. Highlights described in these References include support for:
- Setup Names, a new concept that allows print files to specify the printer settings with which they should be printed under AFP control, rather than requiring operator intervention (IPDS and MO:DCA)
- Metadata objects, which have been expanded to allow metadata to be associated with additional AFP objects (IPDS and MO:DCA)
- QR Code with Image, which allows a variety of data objects to be put on top of AFP QR Code bar codes (IPDS and MO:DCA)
- New Trim finishing support (IPDS and MO:DCA)
- New FS14 and FS48 IOCA Function Sets that provide support for nColor images (IPDS and MO:DCA)
- New BCOCA objects, including Aztec Code, Data Matrix Rectangular Extension (DMRE), and Intelligent Mail Package Barcode, along with enhancements to existing support (IPDS)
- PTOCA encrypted text strings to enhance document security (IPDS)
- Additional printer reporting capabilities, including printer speed and microcode level (IPDS)
For more details, please refer to these new references 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
