RE: Printing TEST background on every page in test environment

I found out why my overlay did not print. The PCL commands that set the
page length, size or orientation turn off the automatic overlay. I added
the command to reactivate the overlay in the WSCST and now it works. It
even adds this overlay if you have a printer file with an *OVL and you get
both.

Here is an example that prints "TEST TEST TEST" at right angle to the
spool text. I'll probably create a nicer background in my real macro.

Retrieve your current Host Print Transform configuration using the
RTVWSCST command.
Ex: RTVWSCST DEVTYPE(*TRANSFORM) MFRTYPMDL(*HP4) SRCMBR(HP4TEST)
SRCFILE(MYLIB/QTXTSRC)

Modify the generated WSCST source as follows:

:INITPRT
DATA ='1B451B26663058'X
'1B2A70307930581B266132373050'X
'544553542054455354205445535420'X
'1B266631783458'X.

First data line has tthe usual 1B45 to reset, the rest is the start macro
command.
Next two lines are the macro content:
first: set cursor to 0,0 and rotate print direction 270 degrees.
second: the text "TEST TEST TEST"
Last line ends the macro definition and activates it as an overlay.

Then modify the page tags to include the macro reactivation. In my test, I
changed only the page length command as it was the one HPT was generating,
but the page size tags probably need to be changed as well.

:PAGLENL
VAROFFSET= 3
VARLEN= 3
VARTYPE=CHRDEC
DATA ='1B266C00000050'X
'1B26663458'X.

The first line of data is the original config, I removed the period at the
end and added the second line that reactivates the macro as an overlay.

Create the WSCST object:
CRTWSCST WSCST(MYLIB/HP4TEST) SRCFILE(MYLIB/QTXTSRC)

Set the WSCST as a customization object for your printer (depends on how
you create the printer).

Now, when you print though that printer you should have TEST TEST TEST in
the upper left corner on the side.

Have a nice day.
Thierry.

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