From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Ferrari Subject: Re: pcl & images Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:25:20 +0200 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200408231725.20502.fluca1978@infinito.it> References: <200408171500.38187.fluca1978@infinito.it> <200408231514.07980.fluca1978@infinito.it> <4596.192.168.99.70.1093274281.squirrel@192.168.99.70> Reply-To: fluca1978@infinito.it Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4596.192.168.99.70.1093274281.squirrel@192.168.99.70> Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org On Monday 23 August 2004 17:18 Scott Taylor's cat walking on the keyboard wrote: > Luca Ferrari said: > > On Saturday 21 August 2004 14:01 Scott Taylor's cat walking on the > > keyboard > > wrote: > > I don't own a cat. > You should try to have a cat. > > Begging does not become a SysAdmin, hard work and research does. Nobody > is an expert at anything until they figure it out for themselves, all > anyone can offer you, at this point, is direction. I no longer posess > living samples, it was way to long ago and I no longer need PCL for > anything. I charge $100/hr for R&D and for this you would be looking at > about 60 or so hours, if I remember how long it took last time. Not worth > it I would say, much cheaper to have a print shop place the logo on a form > for you, and you just continue to output the text you need. > I've already this, I mean I've already pre-printed pages with the logo and other stuff, but to make the print cheaper and to have more flexibility I want to find a way to work with images in my prints. > Have you tried capturing a PCL file of the graphics you want? That's how > I got started the first time. Try installing print drivers in Windows for > "HP LaserJet 4" and then printing the graphic to a file (instead of LPT1); > there is your sample. Now I'm working with pcloverlay, merging a pcl image and a pcl file and printing them together. It seems to work, but the image is partially cut-off (it seems as a few pixels in the bottom are eat by the other pcl print). Luca -- Luca Ferrari, fluca1978@infinito.it