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From: schear@ttidca.TTI.COM (Steve Schear)
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Subject: Saving forms to PS printer disk
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Date: 27 Jun 90 00:32:13 GMT
Reply-To: schear@ttidca.tti.com. (Steve Schear)
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THIS POSTING IS A EDITED VERSION OF YESTERDAY'S POSTING	

I am currently working on a project which requires that I can print a
complex form (perhaps scanned from an original printed copy) in short
order (<30 sec).  No PS engine I can find is capable of handling this
task.  Our current DP LZ1260 certainly cannot.  Therefore, I have begun
persuing other alternatives.

The nost attractive one at the moment involves sending the form to the
printer and imaging it in the engine to just prior to the print step.  At
this point the bit map image would be written to the disk and saved
until a job requiring this form was required.  Then the form would be 
loaded into printer memory, from the locally attached disk, and have the
form's variable (i.e., field information) overlayed, and the result printed.

I understand that PS2 is supposed to have such a feature, but even if it 
would work for my application, I cannot wait.  Is there any reasonably
straightforward way to accomplish the same effect on a current PS printer
(e.g., DP or LW IINTX) using its private disk option?

Steve Schear
Product Planner
Citicorp/TTI
3100 Ocean Park Blvd., MS-44
Santa Monica, CA 90405
(213) 450-9111, x2880