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Tech Note Your LexmarkTM Printer Driver Using your printer driver: creating custom forms The ability to associate a friendly name with a group of frequently used, personalized document settings can be a welcome timesaver in your printing environment. The Custom forms feature allows administrators to save a uniquely-named collection of document settings that may include: • paper size. • paper type. • watermark selections. • overlay selections. • position and placement of watermark items on the printed page. • position and placement of overlay items. This feature lets you configure your custom form once and then make it available for selection, editing, or deletion with the press of a button. This way, you don't have to manually select your desired settings every time you want to use them. For example, if you print a daily report that requires a particular paper size, an overlay, and a watermark, you can make the appropriate paper size, overlay, and watermark selections (if supported by your printer driver's datastream; this will be covered in a subsequent section) and associate those settings with a name such as My_Report. When you select My_Report from the Paper size drop-down list on the Paper tab, the configuration you set up is used when the document prints. Let's take a look at the individual steps you need to take in order to configure, save, and select a custom form for printing. These methods differ slightly between the PostScript emulation and PCL emulation driver datastreams, so they will be listed separately. Creating a custom form using the PCL emulation driver In Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003, you must be an administrator to access this feature. To access this feature, you must open the Printers folder to begin: 1 Open the Printers folder by clicking Start à Settings à Printers. 2 Right-click the printer object, and select Properties. 3 Click the Forms tab. (See Figure 1.) Figure 1 4 Click the New... button from the Custom forms options to display the New Custom Form dialog box. (See Figure 2 on the next page.) 5 Enter a name for the new form in the Custom form name field. March 2004