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Creating a PCL Banner
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Novell Distributed Print Services Administration Guide
All custom banners that are created should have one of these extensions.
When creating custom banners, keep in mind that complex banners will
increase the print time for jobs. Here are some tips for creating an efficient
banner:
Use internal/resident printer fonts instead of rasterized system fonts.
When using graphics, use vector graphics when possible. Bitmaps take up
a lot more space.
Avoid half-toned images.
A working knowledge of the Hewlett Packard* (HP*) PCL printer language
is needed in order to create a custom PCL banner. The easiest way to create a
PCL banner is to create the banner using an application like WordPerfect or
MS Write. Be sure to leave the lower third of the custom banner page blank
because NDPS will overlay the following information in a PCL banner page:
Job Name
Job Owner
Time Printed
Date Printed
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After formatting the banner page, print the banner document to a file
using the appropriate PCL printer definition.
The driver properties will have to be changed from printing to a port/
network to printing to a file on disk. All PCL banners must have the .PCL
extension.
2
Remove the form feed and reset commands in the file that was printed to
disk.
You will need a binary editor to remove the form feed and any reset
commands from the file. The form feed and reset commands will be in the
overlay that NDPS provides. A form feed in PCL is a decimal 12 (hex
0C). There are several possible reset commands that need to be removed.
Decimal 27, 69 (hex 1B,45) is the printer reset in PCL. The following
Universal Exit Command (UEL) also needs to be removed:
Decimal 27,37,45,49,50,51,52,53,88
(Hex 1B,25,2D,31,32,33,34,35,58)
Once the form feed and reset are removed, you have a banner file that can
be used with NDPS.