Creating and Using PostScript Forms with Windows 2000/XP

Creating the PostScript Form

1. With the file to be stored as an overlay open in your application program, choose File then Print.

2. Ensure that the Print To File option is switched on in your applications Print dialog box.

3. Depending on the application, you may need to select your OKI printer model, and then click Properties… This should open the printer driver settings.

4. Select the Layout tab, and click on the Advanced… button.

5. Under PostScript Options, change PostScript Output Option to Encapsulated PostScript (EPS).

6. Click OK to close the Advanced Options dialog box.

7. Click OK to print the document to a file.

Downloading the Form to the Printer's Hard Drive

1. Launch Storage Device Manager and allow the program to discover (locate) the printer.

2. From the File menu click on Project then New Project.

3. Select Add File to Project from the Project menu, and select the PRN file(s) that were created in the previous steps.

Note: This automatically generates a PostScript HST file. Note the name that the file is assigned in the Storage Device Manager. Names are case sensitive.

4. Make sure the printer being used is highlighted in the lower window of the Storage Device Manager.

5. Select the Project menu and then choose Send Project Files to Printer.

6. Storage Device Manager will display "Command Issued" to indicate that the file was downloaded successfully.

7. Close the Storage Device Manager.

Downloading the Form to the Printer's Hard Drive

1. Click Start -> Settings -> Printers.

2. Right click the printer name and click Printing Preferences.

3. Click the Overlay tab.

4. Click on the New button.

5. Enter the file name of the overlay created in the previous steps under Form Name:, click on Add.

NOTE
The Overlay Name must match EXACTLY to the HST file created in the previous section. This is the name under which the file is stored on the printers’ hard disk drive. It is case sensitive.

7. Enter or select a form name in the drop-down list under Form setting, then click Add.

8. Enter a name under the Overlay Name section, and define which pages that the overlay should be printed on under Print on Pages: and Custom Pages:

9. Click on OK.

10. Highlight the overlay name(s) under Defined Overlay and click Add to add the overlay(s) to the list under Active Overlay (to select more than one overlay, hold the CTRL key while clicking on each name).

11. Click on Apply and then OK.

Product(s):

C7300; C7300ccs; C7300dxn; C7300n; C7500dxn; C7500n; C7500nccs; C9300; C9300dxn; C9300n; C9300nccs; C9500dxn; C9500dxnccs

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