IPPD How workflow techniques can by implemented using IPPD Simon Jones 14 th September 2006 IBM Printing Systems jones 13@uk. ibm. com © 2005 IBM Corporation IBM Printing Systems IBM OUTPUT ENVIRONMENT 3/16/2018
OUTPUT SOLUTIONS FOR AN ON DEMAND WORLD Workflow? q Management and control of a manufacturing process. § Real time interaction with components and products q Division of a complex process into smaller parts or units of work. q Optimisation and automation of activities. 2 IBM OUTPUT ENVIRONMENT
OUTPUT SOLUTIONS FOR AN ON DEMAND WORLD How IPPD Implements Workflow Techniques q Divides the manufacturing process into major phases § § § Receive Prepare Print Complete And others in the future, such as Insert, Reconcile, etc. q Each phase consists of one or more steps § § § 3 Steps are sequential in a phase. A job passes through a step and is processed by it. Properties of the job configure the actions of the step. Jobs can be queued to a step, waiting for it to become available. Jobs can experience an error condition in a step. IBM OUTPUT ENVIRONMENT
OUTPUT SOLUTIONS FOR AN ON DEMAND WORLD Object Properties q Jobs and devices have properties § Their behaviour is configured by properties in various parts of the workflow. § Properties may be examined and altered through the IPPD q Devices are given properties by a user when they are created. q Jobs are given properties by § A profile, called a Job. Type § From an attributes file at input, sometimes referred to as a job ticket. § Through evaluation of a set of rules or dependencies. 4 IBM OUTPUT ENVIRONMENT
OUTPUT SOLUTIONS FOR AN ON DEMAND WORLD Receive Phase q Concerned with creating jobs from input files § Single input file – Single job. § Input file group – Parent and child jobs. q Determines the job type to apply, set by § Hot Folder. § Input file name element. § Rules applied to property values received in a job ticket. q Copies the job properties stored in the Job. Type to the job 5 IBM OUTPUT ENVIRONMENT
OUTPUT SOLUTIONS FOR AN ON DEMAND WORLD Prepare Phase q Preparation of the job ready for output processing § Printing § Email/web § Content Manager q Datastream conversion for printing § § Line data PDF/Postscript PCL TIFF, JPEG, etc q Document re-engineering § Value add manipulation of the document content. § Addition or adjustment of factory readable data. 6 IBM OUTPUT ENVIRONMENT
OUTPUT SOLUTIONS FOR AN ON DEMAND WORLD Print Phase q Pre-processing § Build relationship between pages and sheets. § Work out which pages (and sheets) to print. q Scheduling § The “Print Queue” is a pool of jobs from which printers collect and process jobs when they can. § Allocation of jobs to printers is based on scheduling properties. § A subset of jobs that can be scheduled to a particular device can be seen on the GUI. q Printing § Sending data and resources to the printer. § Managing progress and errors. § Streaming multiple jobs to keep the printer at rated speed. 7 IBM OUTPUT ENVIRONMENT
OUTPUT SOLUTIONS FOR AN ON DEMAND WORLD Extending IPPD q IPPD is § § § Highly configurable. May contain generic and customised bespoke components that take advantage of a rich set of APIs. Embodies the philosophy “Fit the product to your business”. q New steps can be added § § § Any server executable program may be run as a step. The program can be supplied with job property values. The program can create files that become job. q IBM will enhance IPPD both through new base functionality product and value add modules § § § 8 SLA Visual Workbench Reports IBM OUTPUT ENVIRONMENT
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