Talk:Advanced Function Presentation

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I found resources on the web saying AFP is Advanced Function Printing and AFP is Advanced Function Presentation. Probably a renaming issue or something. Does anyone know about this change/incompatibility between definitions?

Advanced Function Printing was the original term applied by IBM. When new methods to distribute and use the output were added over the years (such as the Internet, on-line viewing, etc.), AFP was renamed to Advanced Function Presentation.

Merge the two articles ? I've linked both on the AFP page ... --87.194.174.252 (talk) 11:25, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

IBM's sale of half of its printing systems company to Ricoh

Earlier this year, IBM sold half of its printing systems division to Ricoh to create a joint company - Infoprint Solutions. Additionally, future development for AFP specifiations were turned over earlier to the AFP Color Consortium, an industry group that renamed itself to AFP Consortium.

Perhaps should be added to the article.

Afppro2 06:33, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How do I correct this information? IBM sold all of PSD to Ricoh. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.237.81.65 (talk) 18:15, 2 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There are two articles on AFP (Advanced Function Presentation or Printing). The initial article (IBM Advanced Function Printing) is now quite dated. AFP is no longer owned by IBM. The Advanced Function Presentation article is much more current, complete and objective, and includes the basic citations to the AFP standards documentation and the AFP Consortium web site. To reduce confusion, these two articles should be merged under the the newer title. Hydraht (talk) 19:02, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]