I believe PPFA and OGL are still available as one-time charge offerings. The alternatives for PPFA are all considerably pricier. There simply aren't any lower-cost alternatives. However, if you don't need extreme precision placing objects for your overlays, there is a slightly less expensive alternative--free. You can use any good Windows graphic program (not free) and the Windows AFP Print Driver, http://bit.ly/z4Vhx0, (which does not drive any printers) to create overlays and page segments.
There is software suitable for driving low-speed IPDS printers, but to reliably drive high-speed printers requires PSF or equivalent. You might spend some time with the PSF point-counting tool (Appendix N. APSGPPCT point counting tool in the PSF Customization book, S550-0427-04) to see if you can reduce your current pricing tier. Howard Turetzky Advanced Technical Support, Ricoh Production Print Solutions howard.turetzky@ricoh-usa ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
