IBM Advanced Function Printing (AFP)
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AFP is a group of print function programs that support function and page printers running under MVS. AFP software prepares the output for these printers, and then handles the necessary overhead involved in getting output to the appropriate device.
One of the more notable features of AFP printers is that output data can be placed at any addressable point on a page. This capability is called all points addressability(APA). APA gives AFP prints the freedom to create output anywhere on a page, as opposed to being limited to just line and character positions.