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10.3: Apply Quartz filters to print jobs
Authored by: hamarkus on Oct 31, '03 02:28:40PM

Some printer drivers (or rather the PPDs, since the driver for PS printers is somehow the same for all printers) have this option under printer features (called watermark or overlay) to print something like 'Draft' or 'Copy' over a page. You can use this feature even if you don't have such a printer, you have to install the PPD (get the PPD and create a new printer to which you associate the PPD), select the new printer when trying to print and print to a ps-file, which you then distill.

Sounds complicated but I'm using it regularly nevertheless, using watched folders with Distiller helps a bit. A printer PPD with this feature would e.g. be HP Laserjet 4000.



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10.3: Apply Quartz filters to print jobs
Authored by: ScienceMan on Nov 01, '03 07:11:37PM

Does this work only within some applications? I tried setting up a localhost-based dummy IP printer based on the HP4000, but this feature did not appear subsequently under the Printer Features pull-down menu in the print dialog.



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10.3: Apply Quartz filters to print jobs
Authored by: hamarkus on Nov 02, '03 08:32:21AM

Sorry, you have to use the PPD for the HP Laserjet 4050, I'm printing to a LJ 4000 but using the 4050 PPD, which I had completely forgotten. In that sense you could even try to print to your printer but using a slightly different PPD which might have that feature built-in.



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