AFP Consortium update

May 2009

AFP Consortium Incorporation

Organizational Actions

AFP Consortium Members February 2009 23 (26)CORE MEMBERS IBM InfoPrint Solutions Isis MPI Tech Océ Streamserve Kodak Xerox

PARTICIPATING MEMBERS Asssentis CDP Cincom Compart Crawford

CRE-DO DocPath Elixir GMC Lexmark Metavante Printsoft PunchGraphix Sefas Solimar HP

ASSOCIATE MEMBERS Copi LRS

Board of Directors

Six Core Members were nominated for 5 open director positions. The following directors were elected to serve a 1 year term through December 2009.

Roberto Anzola (ISIS - Board Director and R&D Manager)

Paul Gerelle (MPI Tech - Director)

Dennis Ladd (StreamServe - President and CEO)

Michele Pracchi (Océ - Senior Vice President Corporate Software Development)

James Porell (IBM - Distinguished Engineer; System z Business Development)

InfoPrint Solutions appointed the Founding Director

Jeffrey Paterra (InfoPrint Solutions - Sr. Vice President & General Manager, Technology & Solutions Development)

Officers

The Board of Directors appointed the following AFPC Officers

President - Harry Lewis (InfoPrint Solutions)

Secretary - Harry Lewis (InfoPrint Solutions) w/support from

José La Rosa Ducato (Océ)

Treasurer - Paul Gerelle (MPI Tech)

Consortium Architecture work

Architecture ArchitectsMain architects from InfoPrint Solutions Company.

Reinhard Hohensee: Overall AFP; MO:DCA, PTOCA, GOCA

Harry Lewis: phasing into Reinhard's work 

Dave Stone: IPDS, BCOCA, FOCA

Dennis Carney: phasing into Dave's IPDS work   

Nenad Rijavec: IOCA

Roger Buis: AFP Line Data

Tim Towns (replaced Jean Aschenbrenner): CMOCA

AFPC Interchange Set Definitions

AFPC Interchange Set Definitions

Rationale

Why do all this work?

– The most important value proposition of an open AFP standard for customers is interoperability of products

– The last time we tried to bring products up to a well-defined level of AFP compliance was with the MO:DCA IS/1 and IS/2 interchange set definitions in 1991!!

AFPC Interchange Set Definitions

Current architecture activity

• MO:DCA ACR 139 – AFPC Interchange Set: MO:DCA IS/3

• IPDS ACR 439 – IPDS Support for MO:DCA Interchange Set IS/3

• GOCA ACR 018: New Function Set Definition (GRS3)

• PTOCA ACR 018: New Function Set Definition (PT4)

• BCOCA ACR 060: BCD2 Subset

***All ACRs currently at “Active” status***

AFPC Interchange Set Definitions

- Should be IN the interchange set Image Container objects GOCA clockwise arcs CMOCA (!?)

- Should be OUT of the interchange set Functions that have limited scope, e.g. “saved pages”, UP3i Container objects that have limited use, e.g. PCX, PCL Container objects that require expensive RIP, e.g. PS/PDF (see unresolved)

- Unresolved IOCA FS11 (proposal to exclude, concern that the lack of

grayscale will leave IS/3 in a poor position relative to PDF) CID-keyed fonts (proposal to remove did not reach

consensus, requires revisit)

BCOCA Architecture status

BCOCA Architecture - Status Current specification -- BCOCA Reference (S544-3766-06), July 2006

All BCOCA ACRs are written against this document

BCOCA Frequently Asked Questions document Published on www.afpcolor.org

Unpublished Final status architecture Retired items will be identified in next edition

Small USPS Four-State bar code (BCOCA ACR 52)

Small Fixed-Size Bar Codes (BCOCA ACR 53)

Default Parameter-Value Recommendations (BCOCA ACR 54)

Desired Symbol Width Parameter (BCOCA ACR 55)

Miscellaneous Editorial Changes (BCOCA ACR 56)

ACRs at Verified Status – none ACRs at Consensus Status – 3 Architecture in process 2

BCD2 Subset ACR

Royal Mail RED TAG Bar Code ACR

BCOCA Architecture - FuturesPotential new work USPS Intelligent Mail Container Bar Code

The United States Postal Service has defined a category called “Full Service” that requires use of three USPS-defined bar code types:

1. Intelligent Mail Barcode – already in BCOCA

2. Container Labels (uses Code 128-subset B and C) – ACR needed?(for use on mailer-generated pallet, container, or rolling-stock labels)

3. Tray Labels (uses Interleaved 2-of-5 and Code 128 subset C) – not needed

Potential ACR solution summary:1. Define a new modifier value for the Code 128 bar code type

X’05’ – Intelligent Mail Container Barcode

2. BCOCA receiver must meet USPS symbology specifications (stay in subset b and c, x dimension between 15.8 and 19.5 mils, width less than 5 inches, etc.)

3. “USPS SCAN REQUIRED” printed above the symbol

4. Identification bars above and below symbol

5. HRI with two blank spaces between each field

Example on next slide

BCOCA Architecture - FuturesPotential new work

2009 meeting schedule

February 25 – 27February 25 – 27

Boulder, Colorado hosted by InfoPrint SolutionsBoulder, Colorado hosted by InfoPrint Solutions

June 1 – 3June 1 – 3

Toronto, Canada hosted by CDPToronto, Canada hosted by CDP

Week of September 28Week of September 28

Poing, GermanyPoing, Germany hosted by Océ hosted by Océ

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