RE: Color overlays-again

Maybe you should re-phrase and say that printing using AFP on i is pretty
lousy.
We work with a lot of companies that are printing millions of pages (many
including overlays) and are not having any issue printing.

Now I have to state that we get them away from AFP so maybe that is the
issue you are referring to (AFP)
Configuring an HP or HP compatible printer to print reports from the i is
very simple. And if you want overlays just stick with those printers and
print the overlays using PCL (and yes color works fine also). There are
plenty of inexpensive software packages available as well as programming it
yourself is fairly straight forward.
With HP and compatible printers doing overlays (actually called MACROS in
PCL) you will not encounter any issues with which driver you are using, data
shifting, fonts incompatibility etc. etc.

John



-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of DeLong, Eric
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 2:36 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Color overlays-again

While I might agree that this should have been phrased differently, I
have to agree with the notion that printing on i is pretty lousy. IBM's
solution is to sell us Infoprint Server, which gives us PDF support, but
I feel is still a cludgy overlay on top of the MODCA-based print engine.

JMO,
-Eric DeLong

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Timothy Adair
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 11:35 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Color overlays-again

David,

If this is the direction this group is headed, count me out. This sort
of
garbage has no place in a professional environment.




"Jeff Crosby" <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:mailman.121.1257773777.2617.midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

In other news, printing on the IBM i still sucks donkey balls.

YOMAK! Don't sugarcoat it, tell us what you really think.

:)


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