AFP page printers can print all addressable points, or picture
elements (pels), on a page. You can use all-points addressable (APA)
printing to mix various type sizes, styles, images, and electronic
forms on a single page. With all-points addressability, PSF can print
different data at the same place on the page. Overlapping data in
this manner does not produce bold print as it does with an impact
printer. (To produce bold print with a page printer, you must use
a bold font.) However, you can use these data-merging capabilities
of PSF and page printers:
Create composite characters by printing more than one character at the same location on the
page. This capability is shown with the slash printed on top of the 0 in Example 1 in Figure 1.
Overlap characters so that parts of each character have a common area. This capability is shown
with the asterisks (*) printed on top of the characters 200.00 in Example 2 in Figure 1.
Merge a graphics object with character data. This capability is
shown with the mountain graphic printed over the name of the academy
in Example 3 in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Printing two items in
the same location on the page
