Xerox 4112-4127 Enterprise Printing System-192 - Manual (Page 109)

Using LCDS Print Description Language 2-1
2. Specifying input parameters
Input data is processed and temporarily written to disk for
subsequent printing under control of user selected PDL
commands.
The input processor decodes and formats input data online from
a host attached channel interface or a remote communication,
and offline from magnetic tape via the Tape Client.
Input data streams
The FreeFlow Print Server LCDS systems receive data online,
over a channel or through Ethernet using TCP/IP. They also print
offline from magnetic open reel and cartridge tapes. The print
server supports submission of the following data streams:
•
PostScript
• PCL
• ASCII (converted to PostScript by the print server)
• TIFF (converted to PostScript by the print server)
• LCDS
• PDF (converted to PostScript by the print server)
PostScript, PCL, and LCDS each has its own decomposer on the
print server, and the print server supports page description
commands for each page description language. Print Description
Language is a type of page description language, which is used
only with the LCDS data stream.