AS/400 Special Printing Service
For a flat fee, generally only $300 with guaranteed results, the AS/400 Special Printing Service provides access to sophisticated features in HP and compatible PCL-based printers not usually accessible to AS/400 applications. Special IPDS printers and AFP software are not required! Almost any special printing need can be quickly met. For example, within a single print file, you can use and vary as needed, even within individual pages, such printing attributes as:
- Font typeface family (Courier, Arial, Times Roman, etc)
- Font style and weight (regular, bold, italic, etc)
- Character sizes (including very large sizes)
- Special inter-character spacing
- Special character positioning (anywhere on page)
- LPI and CPI (including special settings and half lines)
- Portrait, landscape, and reversed page orientation
- Underlining
- Page copies
- Input and output bins
- Duplexing on/off and direct page side selection
- Special margins
- Registration of print data on the page
- Normal, sideways, and upside down print direction
- Alternate symbol sets (for special characters)
- Draw lines and rectangles, with optional fill
- Physical page size
- Output offsetting (jogging)
- and many more.
The Special Printing Service provides a complete solution for user developers to modify the AS/400 application including:
- A no-obligation discussion of the special application needs to verify they can be met with PCL-based printers and the Special Printing Service.
- Determination of the special PCL printer commands required to meet the application need.
- PC-based utility for pre-viewing, demonstrating, testing, and debugging the special PCL printer commands to insure they provide the required function. Experimental tweaking of these commands, directly by the user application developer to fine-tune results, is also supported.
- Documentation and support for the special techniques required to add perfected PCL commands into the host application.
- General support during implementation until the special function is operating as needed.
The Special Printing Service is intended for applications requiring a limited number of special PCL commands. Applications requiring more extensive support can be accommodated on a special quote basis.