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PCL Overlays for "green bar" printing

While we are doing retrocomputing anyhow, why not bring back the "green bar" print output? Well, not really green bar, bar grey bar output. Here are a few PCL printer overlays that will bring the good old feeling back - One caveat: They have been made with A4 paper size in mind, I don't know what they look like on the American paper sizes 11" or legal, but you can always try, and change. If you make changes to them for the nonstandard sizes, please send them to me an I can incorporate them in this page

The Archive

The overlays are available in zip and in compressed tar format. The contents of the archive is identical. There are several files in the archive, whith the following naming convention

   Lds66132.ovl
   !!!! !  !
   !!!! !  +----- .ovl = overlay file
   !!!! !         .txt = text file explaining parameters
   !!!! +-------- number of columns per page
   !!!+---------- number of lines per page
   !!+----------- constant "s"
   !+------------ s = simplex
   !              d = duplex
   +------------- L = Landscape
                  P = Portrait

If you have questions, remarks, contributions, whatever, drop me a line.

Enjoy your private hercules mainframe




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