User manual LEXMARK PRINTER DRIVER SOFTWARE GUIDE

[. . . ] Tech Note Your LexmarkTM Printer Driver Using your printer driver: creating custom forms The ability to associate a friendly name with a group of frequently used, personalized document settings can be a welcome timesaver in your printing environment. The Custom forms feature allows administrators to save a uniquely-named collection of document settings that may include: paper size. [. . . ] To access this feature, you must open the Printers folder to begin: · · · · · 1 Open the Printers folder by clicking Start à Settings à Printers. 2 Right-click the printer object, and select Properties. 3 Click the Forms tab. (See Figure 1. ) Figure 1 4 Click the New. . . button from the Custom forms options to display the New Custom Form dialog box. (See Figure 2 on the next page. ) 5 Enter a name for the new form in the Custom form name field. March 2004 Your LexmarkTM Printer Driver forms list. Users can print on the custom form by selecting it from the Paper size drop-down list on the Paper tab. In the illustrated example, the custom form named My_Report prints on Letter-sized, colored paper. A personally created logo overlay appears on the front of the page over other images or text contained in the document. A watermark named "confidential watermark" that reads CONFIDENTIAL also appears on the front side of the page, but it will be printed underneath other images or text in the document. Figure 2 6 Select the desired Paper size and Paper type from the drop-down lists. Creating a custom form using the PostScript emulation driver Creating a custom form using the PostScript emulation driver involves a slightly different set of steps since the PostScript emulation driver does not include a Forms tab. Also, some options that you can automatically associate with your custom form using the PCL emulation driver (such as watermark and overlay selections) are not available for custom form association in the PostScript emulation driver. They can still be selected for use with your custom form, but must be manually selected from the Overlays and Watermarks dialog boxes before you send your document to the printer. These dialog boxes appear on the Other Options tab. The Other Options tab is located on the Printing Preferences dialog box. See the Online Help for your printer driver for more information about creating watermarks and overlays. To begin, you must access the Printers folder, then open the Server Properties sheet for your printer in order to create and associate a name with a custom form: 7 Select the Overlay or Watermark options as needed from the drop-down lists. 8 Choose where to apply the selections using the option buttons. [. . . ] (See Figure 6. ) 10 Click Close. This form will now be available to administrators for editing or removal from the Forms on: list on the Print Server Properties dialog box. Users can print on the custom form by selecting it from the Paper size dropdown list on the Paper tab. Figure 5 measurement units. 6 Specify the physical width and height of the form. 7 Specify the left, right, top, and bottom printer area margins. Lexmark Tech Notes, March 2004, Page 3 [. . . ]