Advanced Printing confusion -- MIDRANGE-L

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I am confused by IBM's offerings for printing on the 400. In a ValuPak for $1,400 (V4.4 P05), I can get the Advanced Print Utility, AFP Toolbox, Page Printer Format Aid, and AFP Font Collection. There is seperate product called Print Services Facility for $2,000 for up to 20 images per minute to 6,000 for 46 ipm or more. Need to print 3 different forms, each duplex, with logos, other images (like a box with text), barcode, lots of text at various fonts/sizes, OCR text for US Post Office scanners, on legal forms, to local, ethernet connected HP or Lexmark type lasers. Forms are pre-printed with color parts, so registration has to be exact every time. Print 1-2,000 forms a day. We are trying to get this application off a PC (uses AS/400 downloaded data) that does the Windoze "illegal operation" at least once a day. The existing printer uses Postscript. It needs to be replaced also. Do I need all of the IBM products listed above, or is that overkill? Do I want IPDS printing or PostScript/PCL? Sorry about length of post. Any help appreciated.

Jim Franz

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