Re: [sqr-users] Re: Mail Merge/Word/Form Letters

[NEDOLPH@aol.com]

if you are using an HP LaserJet, you need to ENCODE the font(s) you want and 
just assert the font change at the top of the job (or at the top of each 
letter to be sure) and see what you get. You will have to tinker with the 
margins and if there are Shift-to-bold or shift-to-italics within the body of 
the text, you need to concatenate these font changes within the body of the 
text.  If you are sending the same "Thanks for your inquiry" letter day in 
and day out, this is worth the trouble, IF the text of the letter varies all 
over the lot, it probably is too much work.  We've been sending essentially 
the same letter for 18 months. 

You would not use PDF but simply output the stack of letters to a .lis file 
and then DOS COPY the .lis to the laser jet. this lis file will be ASCII text 
with the HP commands embedded within. 

If you want letterheads logo's etc. (assuming you are printing on white 
paper) they are best pre loaded into the printer once, before you start the 
batch job, using an HPCL "macro" These Images will stay stuck, till you turn 
off the printer

If you do a "fonts printout" from your printer, you will see the strings to 
get any of the font's which are resident in the printer. 

remember to include a NEWPAGE after each letter, to eject it and start on a 
fresh page. 

Before you get too deep, try a DOS Copy of any ASCII text file to your 
LaserJet, to make sure your windows, network, spooler, printer drivers 
working together will let you do this. 

Hope this will get you started
Norman Dolph

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