RE: Looking for alternative to Infoprint Designer

John,

I'm not 100% positive but your pricing may not be correct for 5722-ID1.

"Infoprint Designer is a client-server product which has a single charge
unit. The charge unit is the number of installed licenses of the
product. Only one license can be installed on a single iSeries Server."

I would see it as a list price of $6995 for a server.  Perhaps still
expensive but cheaper than $5000 per seat. 


Michael Crump
 
Manager, Computing Services
Saint-Gobain Containers, Inc.
1509 S. Macedonia Ave.
Muncie, IN  47302
765.741.7696
765.741.7012 f 

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one has any idea where they're going.
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Taylor
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 10:36 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
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