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Re: Conversion to PCL question...

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"luser- -droog" <mijoryx@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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>
> Technically, PCL is off-topic here. But don't let that scare you away.

Thanks!  I was hoping to not "offend" anyone.  ;-)

> There are a lot of knowledgeable people who post here. And if you
> decide to use postscript as an intermediate stage, then we'll really
> be
> rocking!
> But if we can't help, comp.publish.prepress might be a good place
> to try.

Many thanks.

>> We have a company logo.  I can get it in jpg or bmp format.  I might even 
>> be
>> able to get it in PDF format...
>
> For this sort of thing, you want source data from as high up the food-
> chain
> as you can get. Jpg uses lossy compression, so you probably don't want
> that
> one. Bmp might get really large if it's hi-res. Pdf could be better if
> it contains
> the vector information so the image can be losslessly scaled to
> device
> resolution. But if the pdf is just a wrapped-up bitmap or jpg, then
> it's not
> going to give any better results than the unwrapped image.
>
> By the way, for printing and other interchange uses, prefer TIFF to
> BMP.
> The internal format is much simpler so different programs can exchange
> them with fewer surprises.
>
>> But what we need to do is convert it to PCL.  Then I h
> ave to store that PCL
>> somewhere so that later, it can be "sent" to the printer on the fly.
>> Basically, we'd like to print the logo from our internal system vs. 
>> buying
>> pre-printed letterhead paper.
>>
>> We cannot load "macros" to the printers themselves.  We have dozens of
>> printers that might be doing this printing.  They are all PCL capable
>> printers.
>>
>> We do currently use PCL to change font sizes, color, draw boxes, etc.  I
>> just haven't been able to get a PCL version of our logo that will work.
>> I've contacted VeryPDF and their s/w will make a PCL, but when I try to 
>> use
>> it, I get errors from it.
>>
>> Has anyone done this or know how?  We only have one logo and it would be 
>> a
>> one-time shot.  Is there a company or service that could do this for us 
>> for
>> a reasonable fee?  Or any thing I can download that will allow me to do
>> this?
>>
>> Any assistance is appreciated!  JJ
>
> Overall, it sounds like doing a "print-to-file" through an appropriate
> printer driver would be the easiest way to go. I'd recommend using the
> driver for the most primitive of the PCL printers in question;
> assuming
> backward-compatibility to be more likely than forward-compatibility.
>
> You probably should set the resolution by the same method: the best
> that the least-capable device can do.

Actually, I have a logo in PCL format now.  It's in a file.  But it either 
doesn't look that great OR I can't write out the file to get the logo on the 
page.  I basically just need "in-line" PCL to write out within other PCL to 
write the logo on the page where I need it.  Ugh!  This shouldn't be so 
hard.

;-)

Thx!  JJ 

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    Re: Conversion to PCL question... "JJ" <jeffersonjj.nospam@hotmail.com> - 2011-04-04 11:58 -0400
      Re: Conversion to PCL question... tlvp <tPlOvUpBErLeLsEs@hotmail.com> - 2011-04-05 23:35 -0400
      Re: Conversion to PCL question... luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-05 22:57 -0700
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          Re: Conversion to PCL question... "JJ" <jeffersonjj.nospam@hotmail.com> - 2011-04-06 07:37 -0400
  Re: Conversion to PCL question... luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-01 23:09 -0700
    Re: Conversion to PCL question... Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org> - 2011-04-02 22:08 +0000
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      Re: Conversion to PCL question... PGAGA <grifwood@glinx.com> - 2011-04-04 09:50 -0700
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