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Hi Mike,

I don't think using overlays is an outdated technique for printing nice
looking documents. It is actually a very easy and cost effective way of
creating smart documents.

I did some work involving overlays for a client a couple of months back and
like you, I used MS Word (Office 2000) and the IBM AFP driver. The main
document had 3 images, a table where the report details are printed, shaded
column headers and a different shade for the delivery and invoice addresses.
I did not have any issues in terms of quality (documents are printed on
Lexmark T620s, but other models too).

Maybe you should try to alter your settings in terms of resolution / grey
scale rendering and check if you get a "better" result. Altering the
resolution of your image files could help as well as suppose, especially if
you make it match the resolution that will be used for printing.

I'm not sure what you mean in (c) when you say "...to create an overlay that
CRTOVL recognizes". 


Fabrice.

PS: Say "hello" to Debbie for me...

 

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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(a) is this technique outdated and I should be using something else.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(b) if not outdated.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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