User`s manual

Section 1: General Information
AXIS AFP IOP User’s Manual 7
Section 1
General Information
Product Overview • This interface has full support for the IPDS features of the correspond-
ing IBM 3812, IBM 3816 and IBM 4028 printers and is 100% plug
compatible with these printer types.
• Emulation selection (3812/16 or 4028) is easily done from the front
panel control.
• Hardware installation is easily done by the user. The only tool needed
is a screwdriver for mounting one single screw. The interface consists
only of two parts: -The AFP IOP main board and the externally
attached Twinax or Coax patch cable. The interface only takes posses-
sion of the internal optional port of the printer and allows dynamic
sharing with the existing input ports of the printer.
• The interface connects to the IOP input port of the Lexmark printer
allowing maximum utilization of the performance of the high speed
RISC processor on the AFP IOP interface.
• Best performance is obtained by using the Lexmark Optra series, which
is built around a new Graphics Engine based on an object oriented
design. The AXIS AFP IOP creates an HP PCL5 raster image for each
page to ensure 100% compatibility with the AFP architecture, and the
new Graphics enterpreter of the Lexmark Plus series can maintain full
printspeed during processing of complex graphics jobs.