[archive] Printing Graphic .BMP or .JPG

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 22 March 2006]

Has anyone out there used a .bmp or .jpg to print as a background image ?

I am having a small problem where the image is in color, when printed to a color printer the color comes out in gray tones.

However when printing to a pdf driver the color appears.

The process I currently using is to first write the image to the printer, then setting transparancy on, then printing a line.

Any ideas.

Thanks.

Information for anyone interested.

Using "WINPRINT-NAMES-ONLY" to "1" in the config file, is used to get printers list very fast, and it does exactly that it only gets enough information to print, so, any extened flags introduced in 5.2 are missing, so the flags for WINPRINT-COLOR and WINPRINT-CURR-COLOR in WINPRINT-SELECTION were not getting set properly.

Changing the "WINPRINT-NAMES-ONLY" to "0" in the envirornment, then issuing a WINPRINT-GET-CURRENT-INFO-EX, first then issuing a WINPRINT-SET-PRINTER-EX will then print the .bmp or .jpg in color, remember to reset "WINPRINT-NAMES-ONLY" TO "1", so the next time you get the printers list it will respond quickly.