Printer Driver Features

Features supported across all PDKs:	Specific Features of Windows® PostScript PDK:
Chapter/insert pages	Bitmap compression control
Printed back cover	Brightness control (also on PCL®5)
User-defined margins for PCL5	Contrast control (also on PCL5)
Duplex interleaves	Encapsulated PostScript® (EPS) output
8-up	DSC output
N-up starting in any corner	Tagged BCP (TBCP) output
N-up layout in rows or columns	Disable PostScript pass-through
Poster printing	Error page printing
Manual duplex	Halftone screen control
Standard paper sizes	Mirror printing
Non-standard paper sizes	Negative printing
User-defined paper sizes
PCL6 paper size selection by name	Specific Features of Windows XPS PDK:
N-up (1,2,4,6,8,9,16)	Additional N-up (12,25,32)
N-up page borders	Additional N-up page border options
Watermarks	Image watermarks
Overlays	Mirror printing
Driver and device collation	Negative printing
Scaling ("%" and "to paper size")	All Microsoft® PrintTicket features
Booklets (English and Japanese)
Binding shift	MAC OSX Specific Features:
Front cover (blank and printed)	CUPS-based printing (OS X 10.3 and later)
Back cover (blank and printed)	10.3 Panther®, 10.4 Tiger®, 10.5 Leopard®, operating systems
Interleaves (blank and printed)	Universal binary (single set of binaries supports all platforms)
Full-bleed printing (no margins)	Builds with Apple’s Xcode® 2.5 and 3.0 developer software
Custom color correction commands	32-bit binaries compatible with 64- bit platform
Print text black	GUI architected by Apple
180 degree rotation	Standard GUI tabs defined by PPD file
Font substitutions	Custom GUI tabs (PDEs) defined by plug-in bundles
PCL6 image compression (JPEG and Delta row)	PDK includes GUI demos
Reverse page order
Interfaces are exposed by core driver and OCM
OCMs: just re-compile and go!
Tools available for ColorSet™ and Screening Studio™ tools integration
Apple’s ColorSync® or Monotype Imaging’s CMM (via PPD setting)

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