Want to move from pre-printed forms

[John Esak]

Boaz,

Thanks to Jim, we generate all our forms on laserjets from blank paper. We
now do some very complicated and beautiful forms, double sided, lots of
stuff and graphics,  lines, boxes, shading... even color on a couple of
PCL-5 business inkjets.

Years ago, I used to do my own PCL coding (and my own bar coding)... I
actually thought I was pretty good at it... then I got Jim involved. That
was about 12, 13, maybe even 15 years ago. Boy, smartest thing I ever did.
He can do it for you, or teach you how to do it.

I can tell you the simplest way to learn how to generate really nice PCL
forms from filePro. Get a hold of the filePro cookBook issue which has Jim's
thorough and step-by-step explanation of how to do it in it... then, after
you've read and digested that (and it is not hard stuff... you just have to
get your hands wet doing it... with your level of expertise it will be a
piece of cake.) Then, once you've done things at this level a while... get
the 2nd filePro cookBook which has his second article in it... and you will
start doing miracles. The money you save on NCR paper will put your kids
through college.

I may have these issues laying around...

John Esak




> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com]On
> Behalf Of Jim Asman
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 5:15 PM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: Want to move from pre-printed forms
>
>
> --------------- Original Message ---------------
> At 04:29P Tue Apr 24 2007, Boaz Bezborodko wrote:
>
> > Bob Rasmussen wrote:
> > > On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Boaz Bezborodko wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >> I want to move my company from using pre-printed forms with
> out Filepro
> > >> system.  I know that PrintWizard is one way of doing it, but can't I
> > >> generate a pcl output as an overlay and print to that?  If so, can
> > >> someone point to where I can learn how to do that?
> > >>
> > >
> > > It is possible to take a PCL print job, strip out some stuff at the
> > > beginning and the end, and load it as a macro (or each mage
> as a macro)
> > > into a PCL printer. Then you can insert code in your primary
> printfile to
> > > trigger the appropriate macro on every page.
> > >
> > > This all breaks down when the customer brings in a non-PCL
> printer. Or
> > > wants to fax, or generate PDFs.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > ....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.
> > >
> > >
> > I don't have a worry about bringing in a non-PCL printer since I'm the
> > customer and I know what I need.
> >
> > Is there a way to create a form with PCL code that will then output a
> > PCL document as opposed to an overlay and would this solve an issue with
> > PDFs?
>
> There is no issue with PDF's. We've been making PDF's from filePro
> PCL output for YEARS.
>
> I'm sure Brian White will come in a tell you his experience.
>
> You seem to be confused as to what a PCL overlay is.
>
> An overlay is a PCL macro that is enabled as an automatic overlay
> and the printer runs the macro on every page. You only issue the
> enable command once and you automatically have the form on every
> page.
>
> The macro can be run conditionally, by executing or calling it with
> different PCL codes. In that case you need to issue the PCL code
> every time you want the form. None of this has anything to do with
> pdf or fax.
>
> ALL of the pdf converters are broken in one way or another. You simply
> learn how to work around it.
>
> Vsifax handles PCL files VERY well.
>
>
>
> Jim
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