AFP Printer

AFP Printer offers an easy and less expensive way of creating high-quality, industrial-strength AFP files out of almost any Windows application. The software installs as if it were a real printer, making the creation of AFP files as easy as printing.

AFP Printer addresses the AFP document, page segment, and overlay creation from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Photoshop, Illustrator, QuarkXPress, Crystal Reports, and other print-enabling software on Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, XP, 2012, 2008, 2003 (32-bit and 64-bit) . Common documents can be converted to AFP files at an incredibly fast speed while retaining the look and feel of the original documents as well as many options that give users flexibility in AFP creation.

Key Features

Support a complete set of paper sizes

Page orientation

Clip unprintable area or offset plus size

Grayscale methods include photographic, compressed, diagonal dither, line art halftone

Adjust color for bitonal (B/W, Color/White), 16 colors (4bit RGB), full color (32bit CMYK)

Color Management with ICC Profiles

Image conversion from JPEG/JPG/TIF/TIFF to AFP with resolution 300dpi or 600dpi

JPEG and LZW compression algorithm for images

Support level of graphic objects that comply with GOCA's DR/2V0 standard

Easy Intensity and Contrast Controls

Best output fidelity for TrueType fonts as references, inline resources, or images

Optimize text in OpenType fonts, raster fonts, and outline fonts

Maintain Output Fidelity for placement in character, word, and line level

Print Text as Graphics for printers not fully-compliant to PT2, PT3 standards

Support EBCDIC code page

Font substitution of AFP character set with closely matched Windows font

Text Rules to trade off between speed, file size, and output fidelity

Support Inline Form Definition

Produce AFP output files as smaller as possible with AFPDS data stream

Automatic installation and configuration

Certified AFP printing solutions for IBM AS/400, iSeries, System i, and SAP systems