OT: Watermark printing date on print out

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AutoVue will allow you to put the date in a watermark but it may not be the
solution your looking for its an application not a print driver. You could
batch print or script starting it to print your documents.


Patrick Winter


-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne Cox [mailto:wmc20@...]
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 12:41 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] OT: Watermark printing date on print out


At 12:28 PM 1/5/2005, you wrote:
>Does anyone know how to put the current date in a printers default
>watermark stamp?

I haven't seen any drivers that let you use variable data [eg: "today's
date"] in headers or watermarks. And Windows' spooler system seems to
only be geared towards generic text header pages.

I know the Fine Print utility http://www.fineprint.com/ can be configured
to do it. It's inexpensive share-ware with lots of cool features.

Or if you're using a print server & spooler, such as Samba on a unix box,
that can be configured to send arbitrary files in front of a print job it
can be done.

Basically you need PCL commands to define a macro with the page setup and
date and any other text; define the macro as a page overlay; and enable it
for all pages in the job.


-Wayne Cox
Twenty Three, Inc. -- Information Technology Consulting
828-685-2338



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Does anyone know how to put the current date in a printers default
watermark stamp?

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At 12:28 PM 1/5/2005, you wrote:
>Does anyone know how to put the current date in a printers default
>watermark stamp?

I haven't seen any drivers that let you use variable data [eg: "today's
date"] in headers or watermarks. And Windows' spooler system seems to
only be geared towards generic text header pages.

I know the Fine Print utility http://www.fineprint.com/ can be configured
to do it. It's inexpensive share-ware with lots of cool features.

Or if you're using a print server & spooler, such as Samba on a unix box,
that can be configured to send arbitrary files in front of a print job it
can be done.

Basically you need PCL commands to define a macro with the page setup and
date and any other text; define the macro as a page overlay; and enable
it for all pages in the job.


-Wayne Cox
Twenty Three, Inc. -- Information Technology Consulting
828-685-2338



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