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3 Creative Printing Custom Watermarks Traditionally, a watermark is a translucent image impressed on a piece of paper that you can see only by holding the paper up to the light. Your HP DeskJet printer can't do that, but it can put an image on each page of your document, creating the illusion of a watermark. Your HP DeskJet printer comes with a number of watermarks already installed, and you can create more. Go to page 16 for information on using watermarks. You can use any program that can save PICT format files to create your own watermarks. For example, you can create a watermark with your company's logo on it. 1 Create the file with a drawing program or any program that can save PICT files. Here are some tips for making effective watermarks: • Make the watermark with saturated colors. When you print a document, you can use the Density control to make the watermark lighter. • As you draw the image, keep in mind how the watermark scaling options affect the placement of the image when it is printed. • The printing software determines the placement of the watermark based on where it calculates the upper-left and lower-right corners of the image are. If you want to have more control over the placement, you can use your drawing program to place a dot above and to the left of the image in the watermark file to define a new upper-left corner. If you don't want the dot to be visible in your printed document, make the dot white. 2 Save the PICT file inside the Printing Prefs folder. To find the Printing Prefs folder, open the System Folder on your hard disk, then open the Preferences folder. The name you use when saving the file will be the name that appears in the Watermark dialog box. 33

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Creative Printing
3
Custom Watermarks
Traditionally, a watermark is a translucent image impressed on a piece of paper
that you can see only by holding the paper up to the light. Your HP DeskJet printer
can’t do that, but it can put an image on each page of your document, creating the
illusion of a watermark. Your HP DeskJet printer comes with a number of
watermarks already installed, and you can create more. Go to page 16 for
information on using watermarks.
You can use any program that can save PICT format files to create your own
watermarks. For example, you can create a watermark with your company’s logo
on it.
1
Create the file with a drawing program or any program that can save PICT files.
Here are some tips for making effective watermarks:
•
Make the watermark with saturated colors. When you print a document, you can
use the Density control to make the watermark lighter.
•
As you draw the image, keep in mind how the watermark scaling options affect
the placement of the image when it is printed.
•
The printing software determines the placement of the watermark based on
where it calculates the upper-left and lower-right corners of the image are. If
you want to have more control over the placement, you can use your drawing
program to place a dot above and to the left of the image in the watermark file
to define a new upper-left corner. If you don’t want the dot to be visible in your
printed document, make the dot white.
2
Save the PICT file inside the Printing Prefs folder.
To find the Printing Prefs folder, open the System Folder on your hard disk, then
open the Preferences folder. The name you use when saving the file will be the
name that appears in the Watermark dialog box.