Re: pcl & images

[Stephen Samuel <samuel@bcgreen.com>]

Luca Ferrari wrote:
> On Monday 23 August 2004 17:18 Scott Taylor's cat walking on the keyboard  
> wrote:
> 

> 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).

Have you tried adding a few lines of nothing??  Let them get eaten by
the other stuff on the page, and your 'real' image (hopefully)
stays intact.
If that doesn't work, then chances are you'll have to either shrink
your logo a bit, or reformat your text to print a little lower.

Depending on what your PCL program can do, you might also want
to look at laying down the image *AFTER* the text rather than
before.  Another option is that (I think) PCL allows you to
specify whether images are laid down by simple writes, or ANDing
or ORing.  If the problem is that the character blocks are being
just written, then you MAY be able to set PCI settings to have
that data ORed (at a bit of a speed cost, but that should be
trivial, these days)


Like scott, it's been a long time since I've worked with raw PCL
(about 14 years for me)
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