Re: Printing Packages to Use in Place of Phased Out AFP Printing for Overlays

TLAshford has a forms product as well. If you are familiar with their label
product you may prefer their solution.

We do all of our branded pack slips in house. We use the AFP driver to
print the pack slip to a file and then create an Overlay from that.

I thought 5770AF1 is going away. but printing is supported.

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 3:07 PM Conan Sullivan <csullivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Thanks, Peter. I will check this out.

Conan

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Hi Conan,

One of my customers is using Acom forms software (acom.com). Its method
is to merge a spool file with a form (designed with their tools). During
the merge, data in the spool file can determine which form is used. Within
a form, spool file data can also conditionally print various logos or
text. A lot easier than the AFP overlays.

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On 5/29/2020 7:18 AM, Conan Sullivan wrote:

We are on an iSeries at OS 7.2 and process direct to customer orders for

a number of different retail customers. Most of them require that we
include Branded Packing Slips in the shipments that include their logo and
very specific formatting. We have been using AFP overlays to accomplish
this and haven't been thrilled with the process involved. Now with the
elimination of support for AFP printing, we are looking to see if there are
any IBM or 3rd party packages that can do this, hopefully in a more
efficient manner.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Conan

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