[mdlug] CUPS/Samba HP Color Laserjet and Watermarking

[Robert Adkins]

Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> 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....
>   
    Actually, the majority of watermarking needs to be done with CAD 
files that are being printed.

    -Rob