Making the Move to Variable Data Printing

IBM is currently expanding the AFP architecture by helping to move it to an even more open standard. Participants from across the industry have joined the AFP Color Consortium to redefine AFP for color printing. IBM is doing this to further support color printing efficiency and to ensure that the color printed on one device accurately matches the color printed on a different device. When the application is printed on a black-and-white printer, the colors can be accurately converted to gray scale. We believe that this is critical to the variable printing industry to bring the same kind of reliability and security to color printing that black-and-white digital printers have enjoyed for more than two decades.