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I'm not sure that you're going to find printing on the PC platform much cheaper, if you're planning to use a document generation system. Prices of $5K per workstation and $80 - 250K / server license are not uncommon. All that I would say is know what you're comparing to. You're always (I think) going to get more bang for your buck on a PC or Linux platform than any other, but the i5 gets you all of that i5 ooey-gooey-goodness. (stability, reliability, etc.) -----Original Message----- From: midrange-l-bounces+joe.hayes=fiserv.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces+joe.hayes=fiserv.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Ryan Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 7:19 AM To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion Subject: Re: Looking for alternative to Infoprint Designer MQ. On 2/20/07, rob@xxxxxxxxx <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
1 - Wasn't there just a discussion in the last couple of days on the cost of Infoprint Designer and having the per seat pricing all wrong? 2 - I agree that Infoprint designer should be part and parcel of WDSC. Submit a Design Change Request. There are a lot of things that are two broken apart. Some parts of i5/os sound to me like descriptions of mainframe OS and DB software on
other platforms - a bunch of pick and choose rigamarole. Why is facsimile Support/400 a separate package and not just part of i5/os? Isn't that included in the OS on many other platforms? Maybe if they included it with the OS the support would be better. What other part of the OS do you call for support on and ALWAYS are put into a call back queue regardless of the time of day? Rob Berendt -- Group Dekko Services, LLC Dept 01.073 PO Box 2000 Dock 108 6928N 400E Kendallville, IN 46755 http://www.dekko.com "John Taylor" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 02/19/2007 11:17 PM Please respond to Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Fax to Subject Looking for alternative to Infoprint Designer Hello, Our organization is modifying a number of our forms to include bar codes and other graphics, which requires us to generate AFP spool files instead of SCS. Unfortunately, Code Designer has not been updated in years, and never was able to do AFP documents. I know there
is a program called Infoprint Designer that provides a WSYWIG way of defining AFP documents, but the product is prohibitively priced at $5000 U.S. per workstation, plus additional fees for the server component. At that price, Infoprint Designer is just another nail in the coffin of the iSeries around here. I realize that we can hand craft the DDS, but that's very time consuming and error prone. It's just not something that I'm willing to
waste my time doing for the sole purpose of keeping the printing on the iSeries. Our choices boil down to either finding a reasonably priced iSeries alternative to Designer, or moving our printing onto the PC platform. I'm writing the list to see if anyone knows of an alternative to Designer. If you have something that you're currently using and happy with, I'd love to hear about it. Vendors are welcome to reply directly to my email address. Just a thought... but shouldn't Designer have been rolled into WDSC anyway? Business applications tend to require forms printing. Why don't we have a modern forms designer included in our development toolset? Regards, John Taylor -- This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing
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