I have a customer that has a KM6030. They scanned their letterhead into a box on the machine, and can overlay it on other documents that they copy. They would like to do that when printing as well, but I don't see any way to do that. any thoughts?

All I can think of is Prescribe. I looked at the Watermark function in the driver, but it only supports a line of text.

Interesting question. Are they currently using a master Word document and just "save-as-ing"?

I looked at this with a TaskAlfa a couple of months ago and found no easy way (which was very surprising to me).
KMA said prescribe was the only machine-side way to do it.
I ended up using Docucom PDF creator to do it - and impressed the customer by pitching something that wasn't equipment dependent.

It can certainly be done, but is fiddly to set up.

1st you need to print the letterhead to file using a special prescribe generating driver - Not sure where you'll find this, maybe KMA? You then need to store it at the machine as a macro using "Build" in IC-Link, giving it a really simple name. Then you can use the driver to insert the "Call" command with notepad at the beginning of the job, which can be set as a quick select icon in the KX driver.

That's all a bit fuzzy, but once you've done it a couple of times is really easy. I'll try to find time to run through it step by step and document the process, but hopefully this might point someone in the right direction!

It's really easy on a Falcon III. You store the letterhead to a custom box, then call it up in advanced when copying.

What they want to do is a mailing-a form letter to 200+ destinations-personalized for each one- on letterhead. some kind of mail merge operation to make that happen. Using prescribe has been suggested, but I haven't been to prescribe school. szt001 sounds like he's got the right idea, although it all hinges on finding that prescribe generating driver. Thanks everyone for your input.

It is easy from copying as blackcat says - printing's another story.

I really don't understand why you can't select something from the document box in the KX driver and set an opacity level....

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it all hinges on finding that prescribe generating driver.

I have found the prescribe generating driver on my system. Can't remember where I originally got it, but can email? It's a 4mb zip.

I just had to do a project like this recently. Also required carbon-copy for each printed page.

Be aware everybody that the Prescribe Macro Generator KX print driver was created in 2005, and has not been updated all since. The last Windows operating system that it will work on is WinXP. It errors out installing to Vista. It is still on KMAConnect if you search "prescribe macro generator". A crying shame because it made creating these page-overlay macros a snap. The macros created often use the wrong "SIMG" value, so I've usually needed to change to "SIMG,6" to fix the overlay text not showing. Requires using text search feature in notepad to find and replace.

I'm finding several instances of the SIMG command
when i search in notepad. Should they all be changed, and what value do you find works best?

In my notes, "SIMG,6" is what works right for a simple overlay. It may take a lot of trial and error, but try with just changing the last instance of the SIMG command, then try changing all of them if that alone does not work right.