Re: Creating AFP overlays

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, I've only ever used 5722-AF1. :)

Back in about 1996, at a prior employer we were moving to the AS/400.
 Wanted to do electronic forms for our invoices.  In order to match the
existing pre-printed form.  I needed 1/8" shaded lines every other line (at
8 LPI).  5722-AF1 was the only thing that gave me the exact control I
needed.

The overlay is still in use today, as is a couple similar ones.

Thanks for the info about it being discontinued, I'll have to pass that
along.

Charles


On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Rich Loeber <rich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>    Mike,
>
>    We've been doing the overlays the same way you do for years and it works
>    pretty well once you get the hang of it.  And, you can use existing
> print
>    drivers along with commands that built into the IBM i OS.  We recommend
>    this method to our customers as well.
>
>    Rich Loeber - @richloeber
>    Kisco Information Systems
>    [1]http://www.kisco.com
>
>
>  --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>    On 4/11/2013 4:08 PM, Mike Cunningham wrote:
>
>  What are people using to create an overlay to use with AFP?  Is Infoprint
> Designer still the only IBM option?  It was very expensive the last time we
> looked considering we maybe have 6 forms we could convert to a PDF. The two
> we have done were created using Word and the AFP print driver from IBM,
> then uploaded to the IFS and converted. (then test print and start all over
> again)
>
>  Is anyone using this [2]
> http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=DD&subtype=SM&htmlfid=877/ENUS5722-AF1&appname=printers(I see this is about to be removed from support)
>
>  Mike Cunningham
>  VP of Information Technology Services/CIO
>  Pennsylvania College of Technology
>
> References
>
>    Visible links
>    1. http://www.kisco.com/
>    2.
> http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=DD&subtype=SM&htmlfid=877/ENUS5722-AF1&appname=printers
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