Exhibit 10.8

                             JOHN H. HARLAND COMPANY
                          EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN
                     (AS AMENDED THROUGH DECEMBER 14, 2000)

1.       PURPOSE

         This document amends and restates the John H. Harland Company  Employee
Stock Purchase Plan (the "Plan")  effective for offerings  beginning on or after
April 1, 1996.  The Plan is  intended as an  incentive  and to  encourage  stock
ownership  by all  employees  of John H. Harland  Company  (the  "Company")  and
(subject to the conditions  hereinafter set forth) of its Subsidiaries,  so that
they may acquire or increase  their  proprietary  interest in the success of the
Company,  and to  encourage  them to remain in the employ of the Company and its
Subsidiaries. It is further intended that the Plan qualify as an "employee stock
purchase plan" within the meaning of Section 423 of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986 (the  "Code").  However,  this Plan is not  intended to  constitute  a plan
described in Section 401 of the Code or to constitute an "employee benefit plan"
as described in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.

         As used herein,  the term  "Subsidiary"  shall include each corporation
that the Committee may designate from time to time as eligible to participate in
this Plan;  provided such  corporation as of the  applicable  Offering Date is a
corporation  (other  than the  Company)  in an  unbroken  chain of  corporations
beginning with the Company,  with each of the  corporations  in such chain other
than the last  corporation  owning  stock  possessing  50% or more of the  total
combined  voting power of all classes of stock in one of the other  corporations
in such chain.

2.       ADMINISTRATION

         The  Plan  shall  be  administered  by a  committee  (the  "Committee")
appointed by the Board of Directors of the Company (the "Board").  The Committee
shall consist of not less than three members of the Board. Each member must be a
"disinterested  person"  under  Rule  16b-3  promulgated  under  the  Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended,  or any successor to such rule ("Rule 16b-3").
The Board may from time to time remove members from, or add eligible individuals
as members to, the Committee who are  "disinterested  persons" under Rule 16b-3.
Vacancies on the Committee,  howsoever caused, shall be filled by the Board. The
Committee  shall select one of its members as Chairman,  and shall hold meetings
at such times and places as it may  determine.  Minutes of all meetings shall be
made and preserved. A majority of the Committee shall control its actions at any
meeting.

         The  Committee  shall  have the power to  delegate  the duty to perform
recordkeeping,  and such other  administrative  functions as the Committee deems
appropriate under the circumstances, to an officer of the Company, a third party
administrator (a "Third Party  Administrator") or to any other person or entity.
Any person or entity to whom the duty to perform an  administrative  function is
delegated  shall act on behalf of and shall be  responsible to the Committee for
such function.

3.       ELIGIBILITY

         Any employee, as defined below, of the Company or any Subsidiary of the
Company shall be eligible to participate in the Plan on an Offering Date.

         The term "employee"  shall have the same meaning as the term "employee"
as  defined  by  Section  3401(c)  of the Code and shall  include  officers  and
directors who are also employees but shall exclude  individuals  whose customary
employment  is for not more than twenty hours per week or for not more than five
months in any calendar year.

        Any provision of the Plan to the contrary  notwithstanding,  no employee
shall be granted an option:

                  (i) if,  immediately  after the grant, such employee would own
         stock, and/or hold outstanding options to purchase stock, possessing 5%
         or more of the total  combined  voting power or value of all classes of
         stock of the Company,  of any parent  corporation  of the Company or of
         any subsidiary,  determinations  of employee stock ownership being made
         for this purpose in accordance with Section 423(b)(3) of the Code; or

                  (ii) which  permits his or her rights to purchase  stock under
        all  employee  stock  purchase  plans  of the  Company,  of  any  parent
        corporations of the Company and of any  subsidiaries to accrue at a rate
        which exceeds $25,000 of fair market value of such stock  (determined at
        the time such option is granted)  for each  calendar  year in which such
        stock option  would be  outstanding  at any time,  within the meaning of
        Section 423(b)(8) of the Code.

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4.       COMMON STOCK

         The  stock  to be sold to  participants  under  the Plan  (the  "Common
Stock")  shall be $1 par  value  common  stock of the  Company  and may,  at the
election of the Company, be either treasury stock or stock originally issued for
such purpose.  The maximum  number of shares of Common Stock which shall be made
available for sale under the Plan during all  offerings  under the Plan shall be
5,100,000  shares subject to adjustment  upon changes in  capitalization  of the
Company as provided in paragraph 16.

         The participant will have no interest in Common Stock covered by his or
her option until such option has been exercised.

         Any shares  which are  subject to sale  pursuant  to an option  granted
under  the Plan but  which  are not  purchased  on the  Termination  Date of the
related  offering  shall again  become  available  for sale  pursuant to options
granted under the Plan.

5.       OFFERING DATES

         The Plan will be implemented by a continuous series of offerings,  each
of which shall  commence on the first  business  day of a calendar  quarter (the
"Offering  Date") and shall  terminate on the last  business day of such quarter
(the "Termination Date").

         No offering shall be made if in the opinion of the Committee the Common
Stock made available  under the Plan has been so  substantially  exhausted as to
make an offering to all eligible employees impractical under the Plan.

6.       PARTICIPATION

         An eligible  employee may become a participant  by properly  completing
and filing with his or her employer an authorization  for payroll  deductions to
purchase  shares of Common  Stock on the form  approved by the  Committee or its
delegate.

         Payroll  deductions  shall become  effective on the first Offering Date
after a participant has filed his or her  authorization and shall terminate upon
the earlier to occur of (a) the  participant's  written request to cease payroll
deductions or terminate  participation  in the Plan as described in paragraph 11
or (b)  the  participant's  failure  to  satisfy  the  eligibility  requirements
described in paragraph 3.

7.       PAYROLL DEDUCTIONS

         At the time a participant  files his or her authorization for a payroll
deduction,  he or she  shall  elect  to have  deductions  made  from  his or her
Annualized Cash Compensation,  as hereinafter defined, on each payday during the
time he or she is a  participant  in an offering at the annual rate of from 3 to
20% (in whole number  percentage  increments only) of his or her Annualized Cash
Compensation.

         The term "Annualized Cash  Compensation"  shall mean the  participant's
current  annualized  cash  compensation  from  the  Company  or any  Subsidiary,
including  overtime,  bonuses,  commissions  and other cash  incentives  and any
pre-tax  deferrals  under the  Company's or any  Subsidiary's  employee  benefit
plans.

         All payroll  deductions made for a participant shall be credited to the
bookkeeping  account (the "payroll account")  maintained for such participant by
the Company or a Subsidiary.  A participant may not make any contributions under
the Plan other than by payroll deduction.

         A  participant  may cease  payroll  deductions  during an  offering  as
provided  in  paragraph  11, but no other  change can be made during an offering
and, specifically,  a participant may not otherwise alter the rate of his or her
payroll deduction for that offering.

         A  participant  may change the amount of his or her payroll  deductions
for any future offering by filing a new  authorization  with his or her employer
in accordance with this paragraph prior to commencement of the offering.

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8.       GRANTING OF OPTION

         On each Offering Date, each  participant  shall be granted an option to
purchase  the number of full and  partial  shares of Common  Stock  equal to the
quotient  obtained  by  dividing  $6250 by the fair  market  value of a share of
Common Stock as determined below as of the Offering Date. However, if the number
of shares of Common Stock  available for purchase under the Plan is insufficient
to grant to each  participant an option to purchase the maximum number of shares
determined under the preceding sentence or if on the Termination Date the number
of shares  available for purchase is insufficient to permit each  participant to
purchase  such  maximum  number of shares,  then each option shall be reduced to
equal  the  total  number of  available  shares  multiplied  by a  fraction  the
numerator of which is such  participant's  Annualized Cash  Compensation and the
denominator  of  which  is  the  total  Annualized  Cash   Compensation  of  all
participants.

        The option price of each share of Common Stock for a particular offering
shall be the lower of:

                 (i)  85% of the fair market value per share of the Common Stock
             on the Offering Date of such offering, or

                 (ii) 85% of the fair market value per share of the Common Stock
             on the Termination Date of such offering.

         The fair  market  value per share  shall be (a) the mean of the highest
and  lowest  quoted  selling  prices of a share of Common  Stock on the New York
Stock Exchange on the  applicable  valuation date as reported by The Wall Street
Journal  or,  if the  Common  Stock is no longer  traded  on The New York  Stock
Exchange, under the quotation system under which such prices are reported or, if
The Wall Street Journal no longer  reports such prices,  the mean of such prices
as reported by a newspaper or trade journal selected by the Committee, or, if no
such prices are  available on such date,  (b) the mean of the highest and lowest
selling prices of a share of Common Stock as so reported or quoted in accordance
with clause (a) above for the  immediately  preceding  business  day,  or, if no
newspaper or trade  journal  reports such prices or if no such price  quotations
are available, (c) the price which the Committee acting in good faith determines
through  any  reasonable  valuation  method  that a share of Common  Stock might
change hands through a willing buyer and a willing  seller,  neither being under
any  compulsion  to buy or to sell and both having  reasonable  knowledge of the
relevant facts.

9.       EXERCISE OF OPTION

         A participant's  option will be exercised  automatically for him or her
on the  Termination  Date for the purchase of as many full and partial shares of
Common  Stock  subject  to the  option  granted  to him  or her  (determined  in
accordance with paragraph 8) as the accumulated payroll deductions in his or her
payroll  account  at that  time  will  purchase  at the  option  price  for such
offering.

         The amount  credited to a  participant's  payroll  account in excess of
that  which will  purchase  the number of shares for which his or her option was
granted  shall be paid over to the  participant  (without  interest)  as soon as
practicable following the Termination Date for the offering period.

10.      DELIVERY

         As promptly as  practicable  after each  Termination  Date,  any Common
Stock purchased upon the exercise of a  participant's  option will be registered
in the name of the participant  or, if the participant so directs,  in the names
of the  participant  and one  such  other  person  as may be  designated  by the
participant as joint tenants with rights of  survivorship,  but no  certificates
will be issued until requested by the participant or as required under paragraph
11. A bookkeeping  account will be maintained for each  Participant  (the "stock
account"), which may consist of one or more accounts to record his or her shares
purchased  under the Plan.  Statements  shall be  provided  to each  participant
showing  the  shares  purchased  for his or her  stock  account  and such  other
information  as the Committee or its delegate  deems  appropriate to satisfy any
reporting obligations under the Plan.

         A participant will be a fully vested, beneficial owner of all shares of
Common Stock  registered  to him or her (or to him or her and another  person as
permitted under this paragraph) under the Plan.

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         Proxy material, meeting announcements, tender offer materials and other
communications  distributed  to holders of Common Stock will be  distributed  to
participants  with respect to their shares purchased under this Plan in the same
manner and at the same time as such  materials are  distributed to other holders
of Common Stock while they remain the registered owners of such shares.

         A participant  at any time may request that  certificates  be issued to
him or her with  respect to any number of whole  shares  credited  to his or her
stock account. No fees will be charged to the participant for such certificates.

         If a Third Party  Administrator  that maintains the stock account for a
participant also provides brokerage  services,  the participant may request that
the Third Party Administrator arrange for the sale of any whole shares of Common
Stock registered to him or her under the Plan;  provided,  all transaction costs
of such sale will be paid by the participant.

11.      CESSATION OF PAYROLL DEDUCTIONS AND TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT

         A  participant  may  cease  payroll  deductions  at any time  during an
offering by giving  written  notice to his or her employer.  A  participant  who
ceases  payroll  deductions  during any offering  shall not be allowed to resume
payroll deductions during such offering but may recommence  participation in any
succeeding offering for which he or she is otherwise eligible in accordance with
paragraph  3 if he or she files with his or her  employer an  authorization  for
payroll deductions in accordance with paragraph 7.

         Upon termination of a participant's employment with the Company and all
Subsidiaries  for any reason,  including  retirement  or death,  he or she shall
immediately cease to be a participant,  any option which he or she may have been
granted under the Plan shall immediately expire and shall not be exercised,  and
the payroll  deductions  credited to his or her payroll account will be returned
to him or her  within  30 days  after  the  effective  date  of the  termination
(without  interest),  or,  in the  case  of his or her  death,  to the  personal
representative of his or her estate.  Certificates representing the whole shares
of Common Stock credited to the participant's  stock account and a check for the
value of any partial shares will be issued to the  participant.  In the event of
the participant's  death prior to the issuance of such certificates,  the shares
shall be issued to the personal representative of the participant's estate or if
the shares  were  registered  to the  participant  and  another  person as joint
tenants,  to the surviving joint tenant or if both the participant and the joint
tenant are deceased, to the personal representative of the estate of the last to
die. If a Third Party  Administrator  that  maintains  the stock account for the
participant  also  provides  brokerage  services  and  if so  requested  by  the
participant  within 60 days of the  termination,  the Third Party  Administrator
will  arrange for the sale of the whole  shares  credited  to the  participant's
stock account and issue a check to the  participant for the value of any partial
shares  credited  to his or her stock  account  and the  proceeds of the sale of
whole shares less any transaction costs of the sale.

12.      DIVIDENDS

         Any dividend  with respect to the shares of Common Stock  credited to a
participant's  stock account under the Plan will be paid to the  participant  to
the extent such dividend is paid in cash or credited to his or her stock account
to the  extent  such  dividend  is paid  in  Common  Stock.  However,  upon  the
participant's  written request,  cash dividends will be reinvested in additional
shares of Common Stock pursuant to the Company's dividend reinvestment plan.

13.      TRANSFERABILITY

         Neither payroll deductions credited to a participant's  payroll account
nor any rights  with  regard to the  exercise  of an option or to receive  stock
under the Plan may be assigned,  transferred,  pledged, or otherwise disposed of
in any way by the participant. Any such attempted assignment,  transfer, pledge,
or other disposition shall be without effect,  except that the Company may treat
such act as an  election  to cease  payroll  deductions  during the  offering in
accordance with paragraph 11.

14.      USE OF FUNDS

         All  payroll  deductions  received  or held by the  Company  (or by any
Subsidiary  as agent for the Company)  under the Plan may be used by the Company
for any  corporate  purpose and the Company  shall not be obligated to segregate
such payroll deductions.

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15.      CHANGES IN CAPITALIZATION

         The number of shares of Common Stock covered by each outstanding option
and the price per share  thereof in each such option and the number of shares of
Common Stock issuable  through  options  granted  pursuant to the Plan for which
options have not been granted shall be proportionately adjusted for any increase
or decrease in the number of issued and  outstanding  shares of Common  Stock of
the Company  resulting  from a  subdivision  or  consolidation  of shares or the
payment of a Common Stock  dividend (but only such a payment with respect to the
Common Stock of the Company) or any other  increase or decrease in the number of
shares of Common Stock effected without receipt of consideration by the Company.
If any  adjustment  to the  number of shares of Common  Stock  issuable  through
options  granted  pursuant to the Plan would  create a  fractional  share,  such
fractional  share shall be disregarded and the number of shares  available under
the Plan shall be the next lower number of whole shares,  rounding all fractions
downward.

16.      SECURITIES REGISTRATION

         In the event that the Company shall deem it necessary to register under
the Securities Act of 1933 or other applicable  statutes any shares with respect
to which an option shall have been exercised,  or to qualify any such shares for
exemption  from the  Securities  Act of 1933,  then the Company  shall take such
action at its own  expense  before  delivery  of such  shares.  In the event the
shares of Common  Stock shall be listed on any  national  stock  exchange at the
time of the exercise of an option under the Plan,  then whenever  required,  the
Company shall make prompt  application for the listing on such stock exchange of
such shares, at the sole expense of the Company.

17.      AMENDMENT OR TERMINATION

        The  Board  may at any  time  terminate  or  amend  the  Plan.  No  such
termination can affect options previously granted, nor may an amendment make any
change in any option theretofore granted which would adversely affect the rights
of any  participant  unless  (a) each  participant  consents  in writing to such
amendment  or (b) the  Board  acting in good  faith  deems  that such  action is
required  under  applicable  law. No amendment may be made without prior written
approval of the shareholders of the Company if such amendment would:

                (i)   permit the sale of more shares of Common Stock than are
             authorized under paragraph 4 of the Plan;

                (ii)  effect any change in the designation of eligible employees
             under paragraph 3 of the Plan;

                (iii) permit payroll deductions at a rate in excess of 20% of
             participant's Annualized Cash Compensation; or

                (iv)  be subject to shareholder approval under the laws of the
             State of Georgia or Rule 16b-3.

Finally,  no  provision  of this Plan  shall be  amended  more than once every 6
months if more frequent  amendment of such  provision  would result in a loss of
exemption under Rule 16b-3.

18.      COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 16B-3

         All elections  and  transactions  under the Plan by persons  subject to
Section 16 of the  Securities  Exchange Act of 1934  involving  shares of Common
Stock are intended to comply with all exemptive conditions under Rule 16b-3. The
Committee may establish and adopt written administrative guidelines, designed to
facilitate  compliance  with Rule 16b-3,  as it may deem necessary or proper for
the  administration  and operation of the Plan and the  transaction  of business
thereunder.  To the extent that any  provision of the Plan,  the  administrative
guidelines  or any action or omission  with respect to the Plan  (including  any
action by an eligible employee) does not satisfy the exemptive  conditions under
Rule  16b-3 or  otherwise  is  inconsistent  with  Rule  16b-3,  the  provision,
guidelines or action or omission  shall be deemed null and void, as permitted by
applicable law.

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19.      NOTICES

         All  notices  or  other  communications  by a  participant  under or in
connection  with the Plan shall be deemed to have been duly given when  received
in the form  specified by the Committee or its delegate at the  location,  or by
the person, designated by the Committee or its delegate for the receipt thereof.

20.      EMPLOYMENT

         No offering under the Plan shall constitute an offer of employment, and
no  participation  in an offering under this plan shall constitute an employment
agreement.  Any  offering  or  participation  in the Plan  shall have no bearing
whatsoever on the employment  relationship  between any employee and the Company
or any of its  Subsidiaries.  No employee shall be induced to participate in the
Plan by the expectation of employment or continued employment.

21.      HEADINGS AND CONSTRUCTION

         The  headings  to  paragraphs  in  the  Plan  have  been  included  for
convenience of reference  only.  The Plan shall be interpreted  and construed in
accordance with the laws of the State of Georgia.


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