RE: Faxing Overlays

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

In the realm of weird ideas--does the DPI of the overlay matter? Faxes are
typically 100dpi or 200 dpi, printers at least 300 dpi.

At 03:21 PM 8/8/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Could the offset be different for faxing vs. printing. The overlay prints
>fine on a regular printer.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: James Rich [mailto:james@eaerich.com]
>Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 3:09 PM
>To: Midrange - Midrange-L (E-mail)
>Subject: Re: Faxing Overlays
>
>
>On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Wills, Mike N. (TC) wrote:
>
> > I know faxing overlays works, but it doesn't work properly for me. We are
> > using IBM's fax software and on V4R5. It is off to the side and just all
> > around looks awful. Does anyone know of a good starting point to
> > troubleshoot this? Is anyone else doing similar things?
>
>We do it.  I don't think IBM's fax software is very good though.  We
>always have trouble with it.
>
>I seem to remember that there is an offset parameter to the overlay
>specification.  When you specify what overlay you are using with a given
>spool file, you can specify how you want the overlay offset from the edge
>of the page.
>
>James Rich