Anzio Win with Print Wizard ROCKS – we can make money with this one.

[Bob Rasmussen]

Thanks to Tony for the plug. I'll expand on some things below...

On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Tony Freehauf wrote:

> I just got to tell everyone what a great experience I am having with 
> Anzio Win  with print wizard. BTW they did not ask me to do this or pay 
> me any money. There support is great. I had some initial confusion (some 
> say I am always confused) & they helped me through it.
> 
> This is a product we can all use to make extra money.
> 
> My customer needs lots of forms and documents. Things like double sided 
> leases(legal size), at multiple locations.  They also need to be able to 
> make sure they get all hard copies for their files, but they don’t know 
> for sure what is printed. This way they use filepro to print the forms 
> and therefore they know what was printed.
> 
> They are running filepro with Internet connections using PC’s .
> 
> The project very easy to do.  Here is what I did. Scan the forms into 
> PDF format files. Print the PDF format using a hp4plus driver & print it 
> to a file. Make sure the file name ends in .pcl. Make a filepro print 
> code that holds the location of the .pcl file on the PC. Test print & 
> align data. Also with Anzio’s great support if you get stuck they will 
> help you.
> 
> Now at each location I installed Anzio win & copy the .pcl files to that PC.
> 
> Now the customer can print quality forms & they know what has been 
> printed so they can follow-up on hard copies printed.
> 
> I just had to share this experience because I see it as a way you’ll can 
> make lots of money & make customers happy.

The Print Wizard that Tony is using is the one built into AnzioWin, the 
terminal emulator. That makes sense because he is running a 
Unix/Linux-based filePro. Print Wizard is also available as a separate 
program, for use with Windows-based filePro, and as an ActiveX object for 
web-based filePro.

Tony describes how he creates his overlay files: scan-to-print-to-PCL5 
for short. It is also possible to use other approaches, with tradeoffs of 
speed, quality, and flexibility:

1. Scan and save as a full-page image file, in TIFF, etc. 

2. If you have a form as a Word document, PDF, or other electronic format, 
print to file as PCL-5. PW can handle these, even on a non-PCL5 printer.

3. Scan a paper form into OmniForm, which runs OCR and form recognition on 
it, clean it up on-screen, and print to PCL-5.

4. Export from MS Publisher, etc., as EMF.

5. Version 16, now in beta, can directly read image PDFs (but not 
"searchable" PDFs).

Finally, note that the text to go on the form can be plaintext, PCL-5, or 
PWML, created by translating your printcodes.

See you all in Philly.

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

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