I've been involved with this issue with IBM's support for over a month.

Here's the complete PMR:

http://projectdream.org/pmr-overlays.txt

There will be a resolution for the AFP driver in Q2 2007. Maybe. Eventually. 
Probably.

We did find a solution, however.

It involved 5722-IP1 though, so i hope you have that LICPGM.

You will need the (Windows) tiff2afp tool.

From our internal docs (in German, very fast and ugly translation below):

Grafikkonversion über das tiff2afp Tool

##### ENGLISH VERSIOn

Requirements

IBM InfoPrint Server - License Program 5722IP1
PC graphics program capable of genreating TIFF output

Installation

Tiff2afp and other service program can be installed from the IFS path on the 
system
/QIBM/ProdData/InfoprintServer/Transforms/Install/Image/setup.exe

You should be able to find tiff2afp now in the following path:
%ProgramFiles%\IBM Printing Systems\bin\tiff2afp.exe

Generate AFP Data:

The Initial graphic can be scanned or created, and can be retouched and save 
das a 24bit color picture in TIFF format with LZW compression (or without 
compression).

The Tiff File can now be converted with the tiff2afp Toolit:

If you create the overlay for a black and white printer, yo uwill need to 
convert the data to IOCA FS10 format

tiff2afp -a ioca10 -pagetype overlay C:\meinbild.tiff

If you create an Overlay for a color printer, you will need to convert the 
picture to IOCA FS45 format data:

tiff2afp -a ioca45 -pagetype overlay -cmp jpeg C:\meinbild.tiff

The resulting file C:\meinbild.afp now contains the required AFP data

Hint: Conversion with the tiff2afp tools creates AFP data with a resolution ov 
300 DPI, this means that 300 points on the initial picture will correspond to 1 
inch (2.54cm) on paper. If you want to print a letterhead in the format 17x2 cm 
(ca. 6.7x 0.8 inch), you will need to create an intiial graphic with 2010x240 
points.

####End Docs

Hope this helps.

Cyas,

Lukas


Original German Version:

    * Voraussetzungen:
          o IBM InfoPrint Server (Lizenzprogramm 5722IP1)
          o Beliebiges PC Grafik-/Layoutprogramm mit Speichermöglichkeit im 
TIFF-Format 
    * Installation:
          o Das Installationspaket des tiff2afp Tools (und weiterer 
Dienstprogramme) wird vom angegebenen IFS-Pfad des System auf der lokalen 
Arbeitsstation installiert:
            /QIBM/ProdData/InfoprintServer/Transforms/Install/Image/setup.exe
          o Neben einigen anderen Programmen ist das tiff2afp Tool nun 
üblicherweise im folgenden Pfad zu finden:
            %ProgramFiles%\IBM Printing Systems\bin\tiff2afp.exe 
    * AFP-Daten erzeugen:
          o Die Ausgangsgrafik wird in einem beliebigen Grafikprogramm auf dem 
PC gescannt bzw erstellt und nachbearbeitet und anschliessend als 24-Bit 
Farbbild im TIFF-Format mit LZW-Kompression (oder ohne Kompression) gespeichert.
          o Die TIFF-Datei kann nun mit dem tiff2afp Toolkit konvertiert werden:
                + Wird das Overlay für einen Schwarzweiss-Drucker erstellt, 
müssen die Daten ins IOCA FS10 Format exportiert werden:
                  tiff2afp -a ioca10 -pagetype overlay C:\meinbild.tiff
                + Wird das Overlay für einen Farb-Drucker erstellt, müssen die 
Daten ins IOCA FS45 Format exportiert werden:
                  tiff2afp -a ioca45 -pagetype overlay -cmp jpeg 
C:\meinbild.tiff
                + Die resulitierende Datei C:\meinbild.afp enthält die 
benötigten AFP-Daten. 

Tipp Die Konversion mit dem tiff2afp Tool erzeugt üblicherweise AFP-Daten mit 
einer Dichte von 300 dpi (dots per inch) - das heisst, dass 300 Punkte der 
Ausgangsgrafik auf dem Papier 1 Zoll (2.54 cm) breit werden. Wird nun ein 
Briefkopf im Format 17 x 2 cm gewünscht (dies entspricht etwa 6.7 x 0.8 Zoll), 
müsste die vorbereitete Ausgangsgrafik eine Grösse von 2010 x 240 Punkten 
aufweisen.


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
On Behalf Of Jim Franz
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 2:45 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: get color overlay to work?

From the archives, there was discussion of getting color overlays to 
work on the iSeries, with no thread announcing success. Need to print a 
simple invoice overlay, with color logos. It would be great if no additional
products needed, other than a pc product like Word or Photoshop. Has any
been able to do this? The price of various forms products (over 10k) is killing 
this project for a company with only 1 pre-printed form. 
No network server exists at this site. At v5r4. Base OS, iSeries Access, dev
tools only.
Jim Franz 

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