How Infoprint Server handles printing

Infoprint Server uses the JES spool, one of the most powerful print spoolers available, to manage the printers on z/OS.

In addition to the JES spool’s traditional functions of scheduling and recovering print jobs, Infoprint Server has enhanced the use of the JES spool in these ways:

• Users can submit documents to the JES spool in any data format, such as:
  • ASCII text
  • Printer Control Language (PCL)
  • Portable Document Format (PDF)
  • PostScript
  • SCS and 3270 data (from VTAM® applications)
  • Xerox
• Files on the JES spool can print not only on the traditional array of JES-controlled printers and printers driven by Print Services Facility™ (PSF), but also on ASCII printers in a TCP/IP network and on VTAM-controlled printers in an SNA network. Using Infoprint Server, files on the JES spool can also be sent over the Internet to IPP-enabled printers and to email destinations.