RE: get color overlay to work?

Have to be careful there to depending on the type of printer your using
and the ink used on the forms and the paper. Some ink will melt again
when heated and some laser printers can get hot enough to melt the ink.
Some paper will also curl after going thru a laser printer because the
ink used adds moisture to the paper. Need to tell the print vendor what
you intend to do with the form and get them to use the correct ink and
paper.

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces+mcunning=pct.edu@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Pat Barber
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 9:53 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: get color overlay to work?

Be aware that extensive color printing will be fairly
pricey using color lasers. I get a fair amount of static
from customers when they need to buy new cartridges.

Lexmark and HP developed a real revenue stream selling
this stuff.

Preprinted forms are going to be a good bit cheaper than
printing "in house".

An example is a Lexmark C522 color laser. To do a total
reload on cartridges costs just over $400. When you consider
that the printer only costs $400, that's a a pretty stiff
price to pay.

Why not buy the forms with "just" the color logo and
everything else blank ??? You do the rest with DDS.




Jim Franz wrote:

From the archives, there was discussion of getting color overlays to 

work on the iSeries, with no thread announcing success. Need to print

a 

simple invoice overlay, with color logos. It would be great if no

additional

products needed, other than a pc product like Word or Photoshop. Has

any

been able to do this? The price of various forms products (over 10k)

is killing 

this project for a company with only 1 pre-printed form. 
No network server exists at this site. At v5r4. Base OS, iSeries

Access, dev

tools only.
Jim Franz