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End-to-end e-business output solution
InfoPrint® Designer for System i provides a fully graphical, application-independent document composition interface to the IBM System i printing system. InfoPrint Designer enables you to control not only the quality of your communications documents, but also the processes of producing those documents. Powerful and easily integrated, this document composition software contributes to a total solution that helps you produce
e-business output quickly and easily. Affordably priced, InfoPrint Designer for System i provides exceptional value.
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System i AFP architecture
InfoPrint Designer takes full advantage of native System i Advanced Function Presentation™ (AFP™) architecture, enabling you to design professional, compelling documents. You can use InfoPrint Designer to create e-business output that optimizes customer and business-critical communications such as statements, invoices, barcoded labels, policies and reports. And, the integrated graphical design interface makes it easy to modify documents quickly to respond to changing business requirements.
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InfoPrint Designer Layout Editor screen view
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Equally important, like the System i itself, the AFP output architecture was designed for business and e-business environments. Performance, accuracy and reliability must be part of the equation in business output. With InfoPrint Designer applications, the whole range of delivery possibilities is open to you. For mission-critical printing, you can utilize Intelligent Printer Data Stream™ (IPDS™ ) printers. For flexibility, you can also use PCL or PDF
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printers. Or, you can re-engineer your processes and deliver the output electronically using PDF, e-mail, fax, Web and other facilities. You have a built-in electronic output system that enables you to get the output where you need it, in the format you need it, fast and reliably.
InfoPrint Designer for System i is designed, built, tested and supported as part of the total System i. It is a fully functional, precise tool for designing documents for printing or distribution from System i systems. Resources are designed in native System i format, which provides accurate reproduction. All steps—design, layout, printing—are streamlined to help you save time and ensure fast, accurate output.
InfoPrint Designer consists of three integrated components—forms editor, image editor and layout editor—creating a seamless design workbench. Specific program integration automates interaction between the design interface and the System i server so that target files are opened seamlessly into design windows. Additionally, the same fonts that you would use in System i production are built into InfoPrint Designer, providing design and production fidelity.
Easy-to-build print applications
InfoPrint Designer is geared to re-engineer existing simple application output to full graphical (AFP) pages. InfoPrint Designer gives you professional control over fonts, positioning, orientation and more. Because the software is application independent you won't need to change line of business programs; upload and download functionality streamlines the entire process. This helps save time and money, making it a real business advantage.
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Forms Editor was designed to work in native AFP overlay format with the precision and functionality required by today's business forms.
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Image Editor provides a comprehensive workbench for image design, enabling you to create logos, electronic signatures and accent images.
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Layout Editor puts it all together by graphically combining all of the page elements including your application data into the final output.
InfoPrint Designer test drive
Begin your
test drive by scanning in your company logo and then enhance it with InfoPrint Image Editor for maximum quality. Start designing your first overlay using the scanned logo and the same fonts that you will use on the System i.
Shift to layout mode and automatically pull down the output data that you will design into the application. With the application data and final design in side-by-side windows, drag and drop application data until your new document is complete. Toggle back and forth between layout mode and overlay mode until you get the data and overlay in perfect synch. Define additional page formats with conditional logic as needed.
When your design is complete, simply request the entire project to be uploaded. InfoPrint Designer automatically pulls together all the required resources, uploads them to the System i, and creates the System i resource objects. The new application is ready to be put into production. Because the design resources are already built into the System i print architecture, a simple change or override to the printer file is all that is required to put your new application into production.
Implement your total e-output solution
Communications used to begin and end with print. This is no longer true. You must be able to design professional, compelling documents and then manage them through any number of "downstream" processes—print, reprint, archival, fax, e-mail and Web presentation. With InfoPrint Designer for System i your documents are built into the total System i print and presentation architecture so that you can easily re-engineer the presentation as required. This includes taking advantage of the new electronic output capabilities of InfoPrint Server for System i.
The System i printing experts
You'll find InfoPrint Designer easy to use. You'll also find that when you need help on System i print and presentation, InfoPrint Solutions Company has the expertise when you need it, where you need it.
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