Printing is obviously a critical process in any organization's application flow.
Printing the output you require and printing it accurately and reliably is really the objective here. AFP ensures that your documents and reports have the required content and will scale properly as your document complexity and volumes increase. IPDS is the two-way dialog between the iSeries and the printer that drives accuracy and reliability in the actual printing process. Managing iSeries printing on the Network When you're printing on the network, you can't just throw your jobs onto the network and hope for the best. You need to manage the process, so that your documents get printed accurately and completely.