Canon imagePRESS C800/C700 Manual

When there is a license for transaction printing (IPDS or PCL), you can operate the print system in
the transaction printing mode. An IPDS or PCL host sends a streaming job to a dedicated port in
the print system. The transaction printing mode fits print environments with large numbers of
business critical data, such as invoices, checks and salary slips.

Typically, in the transaction print mode, that first non-variable parts of a print job are stored on
the controller and are then merged with the variable parts of the print job.

Scheduled 

jobs

Finishing and delivery

Printing

Media loading

Applications to 

prepare and submit 

job stream

[35] Job workflow for transaction printing mode

During daily work, you can switch between the transaction printing and document printing
modes without rebooting the print system.

When the transaction printing mode is active, the print system still accepts PDF and PostScript
jobs. However, PRISMAsync starts to process these jobs, when you switch off the transaction
printing mode.

The transaction printing mode can be extended with an Adobe PDF Print Engine (Adobe PDF for
IPDS) license. This license allows you to process PDF containers in the data streams.

The transaction printing mode is different from the document printing mode in several respects:
1. All data in one connection session are part of the same streaming job. This streaming job can

have job separators. In this instance, you can see the different job names on the control
panel.

2. The print resolution for IPDS is 240, 300, 600 dpi, or automatically detected.

imagePRESS C800 Series