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Printing Directly Onto Letterhead As a PDF

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Hello,

I have been puzzling over this for quite some time and have googled as many possible things that I can think of to try and resolve this!

I am wondering if there is a way to print your file as a PDF and directly onto letterhead, in a similar way to as if you had physically printed on a printer using paper from a different tray. I would like to be able to apply the letterhead to the files in one motion, no matter what the program that it has been written in.

I have the various letterheads saved as both word docs and as PDFs, and currently we use the ‘add background’ method to our PDFs. We run Acrobat 6.0 and I have tried everything that I can think of, including setting up postscript files to print to, using distiller, but with no success.

Is there a simple way to do this? It would be ideal if we could implement a way into the system so that when we click print, we can just select the either portrait or landscape letterhead for it to print onto.

I would gratefully appreciate any help on this as I am pulling my hair out trying to work it out!

I look forward to your responses.

Louise

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      I think he wanted to be like the way PDFs work where you can select a printer in the normal print dialog that would be a letterhead printer so that it would only print with letter head when you selected that printer. The only way I can think of doing this is to modify the print driver to either made a new driver or change the existing to have a letter head option.

      So, I guess yes if you know HPPCL and VB and or C++ or some kind of compilable language you could make a new driver and call it letterhead to run your print jobs through,

      Now that being said, if you made an API using Post Script that would replace the built in in print dialog of Windows then you could do something like what he wants. I think this product does just that…

      http://www.aloaha.com/wi-software-e…

      Now this will only work with applications that use the Windows API for printing and not their own.

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