RE: Printing a LOGO using AFP - distorted image problem

May I ask the obvious question? 

If "printing that original color jpg logo from explorer or an email message
to a b/w network printer produced very good results" worked, what happened
when you scanned that image and used it? Were the results still bad?
 
 
 
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Booth Martin http://www.MartinVT.com
Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Date: Friday, August 08, 2003 11:20:50 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Printing a LOGO using AFP - distorted image problem
 
I had a similar requirement of printing a color logo to an afp print file,
then convert the afp splf to pdf using gumbo's spool-a-matic software. We
wound up punting and replacing the logo with some text in different fonts
because the color to b/w results were consistently lousy.
 
I couldnt even get the color gif or jpg logo to satisfactorily convert to
b/w tiff. ( and I asked an image toolkit company, leadtools, to try, and
they got the same poor results that I did )
 
Printing the logo to a afp driver and retaining the color was ok, but that
make the file very large and when the resulting pdf file was printed, the
poor color to b/w results were back.
 
But for some reason, printing that original color jpg logo from explorer or
an email message to a b/w network printer produced very good results.
 
-Steve
 
-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Marco Facchinetti
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 8:46 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Printing a LOGO using AFP - distorted image problem
 
 
Nick, what I can tell about is my experience:
 
1 - Download the latest driver from Ibm site.
2 - Don't use office products to print, better use a
graphical tool.
3 - If once you have a bad result reset your PC. Look like
some settings became "resident"
4 - Untill now I've got the best results with XP...
5 - With the latest driver version you have 5 gray scale
methods. Test, test...
 
HTH
Marco
--- Nick <nleonessa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am trying to create a logo to print on an AFP printer
> (HP4050) attached to
> my 170 via IP.
>
> I created the page segement on the pc using my IBM AFP
> 600 printer. Uploaded
> to the AS/400 and created it. When I ran my report, the
> logo was very
> distorted. When I look at it on the PC through MS Paint,
> it looks great. But
> when I look at it using client accesses AFP Workbench
> Viewer it looks
> terrible.
>
> Is there something I need to do to get the quality of the
> logo to appear as
> it does on the PC.
>
> Thanks..