Printing customized statements with color

A bank creates highly customized statements. The statements are currently printed on black and white printers, but the bank would like to add color images to some statements and have the option of printing them on color printers. The bank wants to produce high-quality color statements on high-speed, industrial-strength color printers. The bank also wants to enhance the black and white printing on monochrome printers by tailoring the grayscale appearance with custom halftone and tone transfer curves.

Here is how this customer can use AFP color management with PSF for z/OS® to meet its requirements:

1. The bank uses a Windows or Macintosh-based document composition tool to create an AFP statement application. The tool also creates the AFP color management resources (CMRs), such as halftone and tone transfer curves, that are used to print the statements with high-quality grayscale emulation.
2. The InfoPrint AFP Resource Installer stores CMRs in AFP resource libraries on z/OS. The AFP Resource Installer is used to install CMRs created from halftones and tone transfer curves, install data object resources that are created from color images, and associate the correct halftone and tone transfer curve CMRs with image resources to produce the best quality output.
3. The AFP statement application is submitted to the JES spool for printing.
4. JES selects the job to be printed by PSF. PSF combines the job with AFP resources from the resource libraries, converts the data stream to IPDS, and transmits the IPDS and AFP CMRs to an InfoPrint 4100 for black and white printing or an InfoPrint 5000 for color printing.

Figure 12 shows how PSF uses AFP color management to send color statements to black and white or color printers.

Figure 12. Printing customized statements with color