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          Our Company's 3900

          If you get your printed reports from the Mytown Data Center you
          have probably noticed a significant improvement in the print quality.
          Just to keep you up to date we got rid of our old 3800 model 3 laser
          printer and replaced it with a new 3900 laser printer.  Among the
          noticeable improvements are darker print, and printing that is
          consistent relative to in/out folds.  In other words you should not
          have to refold your output to make it look presentable.

          The 3900 is an AFP (Advanced Function Printer) with a print density of
          240 x 240 pels (picture elements, or dots) per square inch.  It is a
          non-impact, all-points addressable, continuous-forms printer that
          prints up to 229 pages per minute (for 8 1/2 inch forms).  The speed
          is very consistent even for complicated material.  The rated speed of
          smaller lasers attached to PCs (8-30 page sides/minute) on the other
          hand is tremendously affected by changes in fonts and complicated
          graphics.

          In the past considerable use of preprinted forms was a necessity in
          order to produce output quickly with unchanged portions in a variety
          of type sizes.  With laser printers today as long as you require only
          black ink, the entire form and unique portions can be printed at the
          same time.

          On mainframes our traditional output is 132 characters wide printed in
          a LANDSCAPEœŸ format.  In order to print in PORTRAITœ a form
          definition is required in your JCL.  On the 3900 portrait and
          landscape pertain to how output is viewed and have no relevance to the
          physical direction of the paper through the printer.  All output not
          in landscape will require a form definition in JCL.

          Print features can be specified on the OUTPUT statement in JCL and
          include FORMDEF, PAGEDEF, CLASS, FORMS, GROUPID, and DEST.  In clists
          and TSO usage these items may be included on an OUTDES command.
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