$jch@CLVM.BITNET (Jeffrey C Honig) (01/29/86)
======================================================================== I had a discussion about mailing labels with an Imagen Representative at an Imagen presentation. It was explained to me that the heat produced by a laser printer would melt the glue used on normal labels. The glue could then leak into the printer and interfere with operation. The Imagen representative mentioned two manufacturers that make labels specifically for laser printers. Our paper supplier, Moore Business Forms Inc, provided us with some sample Avery labels that work quite well. I don't remember the other company. Jeffrey C Honig Clarkson University
liam%cs.qmc.ac.uk@CS.UCL.AC.UK (William Roberts) (02/07/86)
We have been putting Xerox sticky labels ("Suitable for all
mail machines except 720 1200") through the laserwriter with no
problems at all.
It also works fine with transparencies for overhead projector
slides, provided they are intended for heat-fixed photocopiers
which is after all what the black-mark-making bit of the
LaserWriter is.
I have done several mailing shots (inviting applicants to
interview for example) using a mixture of ditroff and
PostScript. The idea is to use "copypage" instead of
"showpage" and re-use the effort of generating the bitmap.
You have to add a few routines to white-fill any areas which
change (the address, Dear X, etc etc) and reprint the new
personalised information, but with prefeed turned on, you do
get the fabled 8 pages per minute throughput of beautiful
letters.
The only snags are that it only works with single pages, you have
to edit the PostScript version of the ditroff output and it is
not easy to handle re-justification of lines/paragraphs. Even
so, the results are worth the effort! We have invited nearly
500 potential students, each of whom gets a letter with various
code numbers, their address, a date and LOTS of text. Without
the above trick, this amounts to over a day of printing time,
let alone the formatting time!
I have modified our version of psdit (we have a TranScript
source licence) so that certain ditroff output language
comments cause extra PostScript output - one includes a file,
the other inserts a single PostScript statement. With these, I
think I can run this scheme from the Ditroff end of things....
William Roberts ARPA: liam@UK.AC.QMC.CS
Queen Mary College UUCP: liam@qmc-cs.UUCP
London, UK