Xerox FreeFlow User Manual - page 11

Installation and Setup

Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server

IBM® IPDS User Guide

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Setting System Preferences

The system behavior for jobs or sets that exceed the capacity of a finisher can be selected in the 

System Preferences dialog. To reach this dialog, select [System Preferences] from the System pull-down 

on the main GUI. Select the Job Policy tab. Under Over Limit Finishing, check Print Job Unfinished. If 

the [Fault Job] or [User Intervention] option in the Over Limit Finishing panel are selected, when an 

over limit finishing situation is encountered, the printer informs the host that a printer fault is raised 

and intervention is required. This causes the host to stop sending data. In these cases, it is typically 

necessary to terminate the job at the print server. However, terminating the job at the print server does 

not clear it from an IPDS host output queue, and the host will retransmit the data unless the job is also 

terminated at the host.

Setting External Finishers

Determine if the system contains an external finisher. If the system contains an external finisher, select 

[Finishing] from the Printer drop down menu. Right-click on the external finisher and select [Properties]. 

Under Maximum Set Size, the default setting is 65000. Set the value to the actual maximum set size of 

the external finisher, otherwise performance issues may be encountered.

Managing the Print Queue

Using Queue Overrides

The IPDS information processed by the IPDS gateway is sent to the Output queue selected in the IPS 

Manager. Use the Queue Manager to view and manage the queue properties applied to jobs. Under 

the PDL Settings tab, the IPDS FAB on the Queue Manager dialog may be used to set the resolution of 

the print data supplied to the print engine. Values of 300 or 600 dpi may be selected. 

While you may want to dedicate a queue to IPDS, the queue may still be used for other PDLs, subject to 

the rules of the print server job and queue management. The PDL Format must not be set to override 

for any PDL other than IPDS for a queue that is used to print IPDS jobs. 

Note 

Setting the Override lock for IPDS will force all job data to be processed as IPDS, preventing 

the queue from processing non-IPDS jobs.

Note that a number of print server queue properties can affect the attributes of the printed job. In an 

IPDS environment, the host is typically responsible for controlling the attributes of the printed data. 

Changing the attributes of the job could cause Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server IPDS data to print 

incorrectly. Setting queue defaults for such properties does not interfere with the values selected by the 

IPS Manager. However, overrides for the following queue properties must be avoided:

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Stock attributes (Name, Size, Color, Type, Weight)

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Output Location