Re: Printing overlays to an AS/400 attached laser printer

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

have you looked at the Quadrant Formtastic Fusion product?



On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Wayne McAlpine wrote:

> Going to a real Advanced Function Printing environment would manage the
> download of the overlays to printer memeory once per job, but that would
> be a pretty hefty investment in hardware and software.  The downloaded
> fonts that you mention would do the same thing at a fraction of the
> cost.  I think you're on the right track.
>
> Richard Casey wrote:
> > Help!
> >
> > I'm printing paychecks to a network attached Xerox laser printer. I've
> > created an overlay containing the signature block and reference it in the
> > printer file definition. It works great. However, as far as I can tell, I
> > have to use Host Print Transform = *YES which causes a really BIG hit on the
> > AS/400 when it converts the print file prior to sending it to the printer.
> >
> > I'm currently working to convert the signature to a custom font that I can
> > download to the printer once and then include a reference to that font in my
> > print program.
> >
> > Is there a way to "pre-convert" an overlay rather than having the AS/400
> > chew on it for each check?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Richard Casey
> >
> >
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