[mdlug] CUPS/Samba HP Color Laserjet and Watermarking

[Aaron Kulkis]

Robert Adkins wrote:
>     Anyone here familiar with setting up CUPS/Samba print sharing to 
> allow end users to be able to apply watermarks at their desktop and have 
> those print out at the print server?
> 
>     We have a HP Color Laserjet 2550L that's configured, shared and 
> printable connected to a server running OpenSuSe 10.2 and I have users 
> that are unable to get watermarks to print to that printer.
> 
>     Googling hasn't offered many answers.
> 

Sounds like a job for ImageMagick...(superimpose the watermark, with
moderately high transparency, onto image files before printing...although
how to do this simply with text files (especially in "any random
font(s)" is beyond me....