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Thanks to Chad and Michael for the ideas. I tried installing the AFP 300
driver first. The lines printed fine that time but it also added a 3/8"
margin on the left and practically no margin on the right. I played around
with some settings but couldn't figure out how to move things back. This
is a document that has a bit of horizontal detail so I couldn't use it.
I went back to the AFP 240 driver and played around with the settings
there. Ultimately, I went into Properties then Image Options and changed
it from "default dither" to "photographic dither". The lines were straight
again. I had a small logo as part of the letterhead that got a bit more
fuzzy but I think that should be acceptable. Thanks again!
Dave Parnin
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I ran into something similar when we upgraded some servers from Win2000 to
Win2003. It ended up being fixed by setting some of the settings in the
AFP driver to DIFFERENT settings than they had been in the past. Try
playing with the AFP driver options and see if you can hit upon a
combination that gets the right results. At this point, I can't remember
which setting it was that made the difference.
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I've created overlays in the past from Microsoft Word using IBM's AFP
printer driver with the output type set to "medium overlay" and they've
worked pretty good. Yesterday I tried creating one and the vertical lines
are sometimes where they should be and other times off a bit. In other
words, what should be a vertical line has a section in the middle that's
too far to the left or right. The Word document is a big table laid out
like a form. The lines are the edges of the table cells. Some are set to
print and others aren't, thus making the boxes of the form. They look fine
when printed from word but once converted to an overlay they are distorted.
To create it I print to a file using the IBM 240 driver. I copy it to a
folder in QDLS (yea, it's the old way of doing it but it's the way that's
always worked). Next, a CPYFRMPCD to get it into a physical file.
Finally, a CRTOVL. The overlay is assigned to a printer file and the spool
file is generated.
Since I made my last overlay we've upgraded from V5R1 to V5R3 on the
iSeries and gone from Office 97 to Office 2003 on the PC. It is running
Windows 2000. Any ideas? We are a couple months behind on PTF's but will
get current this weekend. I did try downloading the latest 240 driver from
IBM but it didn't help. Any ideas?
Dave Parnin
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Nishikawa Standard Company
Topeka, IN 46571
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