Mark,
There are software packages available to create overlays from documents. We've been doing
this since the mid-90's (Steve Richmond and I did a presentation on this at the Universe Symposium
in Denver in '94 or '95) with home-grown software originally. For the last five years or so, we've
been using a product called Forms Electric (http://www.visual.co.uk/formselectric.asp). We copy
the file this generates to our system, and cat the file to the printer.
HTH Drew
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One of my clients would like to replace their pre-printed forms with those generated by the system. Basically the form has been re-created in MS Publisher and saved as a PRN file.
I understand that there is some magic to send the form, keep the job open
and
then send the data for the form. This will most likely be HP PCL per my
insistence but there maybe some Canon network printers brought into the
mix.
There are others on the list who will help with the overlaying of data on a form, I hope... We use one Canon networked printer, the IR330, and it supports PCL better than our HP Deskjet printers, so you shouldn't have much trouble getting them to obey your PCL commands.
Just a comment to make more noise on the list.
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