Can I get a DeskJet 842C to sign a letter from filePro?

[Jim Asman]

--------------- Original Message ---------------
At 03:04P Tue May 08 2007, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

> One of my clients wants me to make their filePro report (a full page,
> single page letter) contain a digitized signature -- in blue ink.
> 
> I have -- once -- included a bitmap image in a filePro report; it was a
> logo, and I don't recall *how* I translated it into an image file
> format that I could include from a print code, but I remember it was a
> cast iron sonuvabitch to get done.
> 
> It was 5 years ago, which is the other reason I don't remember.
> 
> Do the DeskJets speak PCL?  A version new enough to include a color
> image?  (Or, I guess, to take a monochrome bitmap and render it in a
> specified color?)
> 
> I have the rest of the week to figure this out, but with Jim Asman and
> a couple others monitoring the list, I figured this would be the best
> first place to ask.

Most deskjets speak PCL3, although, of late there are many that are
windows only. But let's assume that the 842 is a PCL printer.

The theory would be that you set the foreground color to blue just
before you print the sig and then back to black after it is printed.

Have a look at the printcode table for the hp-2250, where code numbers
in the 80's enable color text. If you are lucky, the foreground color
for text will come through for the bitmap. It will work on some 
printers and not others.

There are special considerations on imaging a bitmap on a PCL3 printer.

Go to my website and download the manual for MKPCL. The read the last
part about filepro and particularly the section on deskjet printers.



Jim 
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