Download of letterhead to printer

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Rodgers Hemer wrote:

> My client is running filePro 5.0.14 on SCO Enterprise 5.0.7 and has several HP
> 2430 networked printers.  In addition to standard reports from filePro,
> several of the outputs are wholly composed of HPGL commands, including bar
> codes with software and instructions from Jim Asman.  The client would also
> like to down load his letterhead and logos that are currently being
> pre-printed on the the printer paper.  We do not want to insert any Windows
> based print servers into the system.  Some of the users run Anzio on their PCs
> but other users are on Wyse S50 terminal servers with direct SCO Ansi
> interfaces.

You can do a lot of programming in PCL, in order to achieve HPGL (main
file) on a PCL overlay, as long as it is printed on a PCL-5 printer. Or
you can reconsider your premise.

If you a) send your print jobs through AnzioWin, or b) set up a Print
Wizard Server Edition (PWSE) on a Windows box, you can:

a) Print PCL/HPGL, or plain text, or Print Wizard Markup Language (PWML);

b) on an overlay that is in format PCL, TIF, BMP, GIF, JPG, EMF, WMF, SPL,
or straight off a scanner;

c) on any printer, or to PDF, or to fax. If it goes to a PCL-5 printer,
the printer will handle the overlay macro; if not, our code will.

Since you already have some Windows PCs in the network, you can run PWSE
on one of them, as a Windows service (even if nobody is logged on), and
route its output back over the network to any printer, as long as Windows
can see it.

Don't work too hard...

Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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