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| I am confused by IBM's offerings for printing on 
the 400. In a ValuPak for $1,400 (V4.4 P05), I can get the Advanced Print 
Utility, AFP Toolbox, Page Printer Format Aid, and AFP Font Collection. 
There is seperate product called Print Services Facility for $2,000 for up 
to 20 images per minute to 6,000 for 46 ipm or more. Need to print 3 
different forms, each duplex, with logos, other images (like a box with 
text), barcode, lots of text at various fonts/sizes, OCR text for US 
Post Office scanners, on legal forms, to local, ethernet connected HP or Lexmark 
type lasers. Forms are pre-printed with color parts, so registration has to 
be exact every time. Print 1-2,000 forms a day. We are trying to get this 
application off a PC (uses AS/400 downloaded data) that does the Windoze 
"illegal operation" at least once a day. The existing printer uses 
Postscript. It needs to be replaced also. Do I need all of the IBM products 
listed above, or is that overkill? Do I want IPDS printing or PostScript/PCL? 
Sorry about length of post. Any help 
appreciated.  Jim Franz | 
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