2.Open your application’s Print… dialog and choose any options you will require, ensuring that the target printer is your PostScript printer driver in which the overlays have been defined.

3.Click the Properties button to open the Printing Preferences window.

4.On the Overlays tab, choose Use Overlay from the

drop-down list (1).

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5.Click on the first overlay (2) you wish to use. In this example it is the Cover Page overlay. Then click the Add button (3).

6.If you want to use another overlay, in this case it is the Continuation page, click the second overlay (4) and then click the Add button (3) again.

7.When you have selected all the overlays you want to use for this document, click OK.

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8.Finally, in your application’s print dialog, click OK to begin printing.

Creating PCL Overlays

Three steps are required to create an overlay:

1.Create the form data using your own application software and print it to a printer (.PRN) file.

2.Use the Storage Device Manager utility software supplied on CD with your printer to create a “project file,” import the .PRN file, and download the generated filter (.BIN) files to the printer.

3.Use downloaded files to define your overlay ready for use with any future document.

When printing files to disk, do not select any special features, such as two-sided printing or multiple copies. These are not appropriate to macros, they apply only to your final documents.

Creating the overlay image

1.Use your preferred application, perhaps a graphics program, to create the required image and save it.

2.Open your application’s Print… dialog.

3. Make sure that the selected printer name (1) is that of 1 your PCL printer driver.

4.Select the Print To File (2) option.

5.When prompted for a print file name, enter a meaningful name with the extension .PRN .

6.Close your application.

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