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Hi Mike, I don't think using overlays is an outdated technique for printing nice looking documents.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... -----Original Message----- From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike_Bramley@xxxxxxxxxxx Sent: 05 August 2004 11:29 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I'm looking at *OVL overlays as a possible solution for printing a smarter invoice on release 5.1 (a) is this technique outdated and I should be using something else.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 (b) if not outdated.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 -- This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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