RE: overlays

a)  Don't know that you can call it outdated since it's still IBM's
preferred and recommended way to handle business critical printing.

b) & c)  Hm, are you printing to a *IPDS 600dpi capable printer?  I've seen
poor results when the dpi between the overlay and printer don't match.

Also, recently read a post here saying OpenOffice did a better job at
creating overlays than MS Word.

What's your overlay look like? I wouldn't be trying to do detail graphics or
anything.


HTH,
Charles


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike_Bramley@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:Mike_Bramley@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 7:29 AM
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: overlays
> 
> 
> I'm looking at *OVL overlays as a possible solution for 
> printing a smarter
> invoice on release 5.1
> (a) is this technique outdated and I should be using 
> something else. What
> techniques do people use?
> (b) if not outdated. I've downloaded the printer driver to 
> write out an
> overlay from MS Word and I can get IBM AFP 600 to work. Transferred to
> iseries I can create an overlay CRTOVL and use it.  If I  
> select a named
> IBM printer of appropriate type will I get 'better' prints?
> (c) I tried a random selection of named printers and it 
> doesn't seem to
> create an overlay that CRTOVL recognises. Get error 02. And 
> the contents of
> the uploaded overlay 'source' looks different to that for IBM 
> AFP 600. Any
> ideas?
> 
> Any help much appreciated.
> regards
> Mike
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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