User`s manual

Preface
Axis AFP User’s Manual 1
Preface
Thank you for purchasing the AXIS AFP Printer Controller. Our goal in
developing this product is to enable you to connect any PostScript printer
to your IBM IPDS environment, allowing you to take full advantage of
both the IPDS functions and your PostScript printer capabilites.
About Axis
Axis Communications, founded in 1984, is one of the world’s fastest grow-
ing companies in the CD-ROM server, network print server, network cam-
era and IBM printer interface market. The head quarters are located in
Lund, Sweden, with subsidiaries in Beijing, Boston, Paris, Shanghai, Sin-
gapore, Tokyo, and Hong Kong.
Axis Communications has a distributor network operating in more than 60
countries world-wide, marketing four product lines:
Network Print Servers: These intelligent Ethernet and Token Ring print
servers support a wide range of LAN protocols. The Axis NPS 530, 550,
and AXIS 150, 540, 560, 570, 570 MIO are Ethernet print servers, while
the Axis NPS 630, 650, and AXIS 640, 660, 670, 670 MIO are Token
Ring print servers.
IBM Mainframe and S/3x – AS/400 Printer Interfaces: These products
include a wide range of plug-in interfaces and stand-alone products such as
the AXIS Cobra+, AXIS 330/370 Cobra, AXIS HP MIO, the AXIS
AFP IPDS-to-PostScript converter, and the AXIS AFP MIO/IOP IPDS-
to-PCL converters.
Network CD-ROM Servers: AXIS StorPoint CD multiprotocol CD-
ROM servers provide a flexible and cost-efficient solution for sharing CD-
ROMs across the network. They are available in Ethernet and Token Ring
versions.
Network Camera Server: The AXIS NetEye 200 Network Camera attach-
es directly to an Ethernet network. It supports TCP/IP and Internet-related
protocols. This product replaces closed circuit video or PC with framegrab-
ber, at a lower cost.