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MPI Tech releases next generation mainframe printing software

February 9, 2004

MPI Tech introduces new releases of the entire mainframe printing software program: Enterprise Print Manager (EPM) Print Sub System (PSS) and AFP Conversion Module (ACM).

New features include:

New Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) architecture features
XML Printing, XML has become the standard data format for e-commerce applications between businesses
PDF output enhancements

AFP Architecture updates

2D Barcode support 2D bar codes are bar code symbols that encode the data vertically as well as horizontally, so that much more information can be contained in a much smaller space on a page
FS45 IO image support
Object Containers improvements, Object Containers enables virtually any type of data to be contained in the AFP architecture. Object container for holding PDF, JFIF, TIFF or GIF will be supported

XML printing

Extensible Markup Language (XML) has become the standard format for data interchange to support e-business initiatives such as Web services, business process integration, business-to-business commerce (B2B) and more.

XML is now accepted as input with output options similar to AFP conversion and printing, i.e. PCL5, PostScript and PDF.

PDF enhancements

PDF document security

Modification protection to prevent the user from altering the contents of the document
Read/password protection by prompting the user for a password when attempting to open the document

Document Indexing and hyper-link navigatio
PDF output file splitting using
Automatic page rotation used to show the document correctly on the screen.
Linearization; allowing the first page of a document to be displayed quickly while the rest of pages is being converted