2 PRINTING FROM WINDOWS106 Printing With Best Functions for Your Needs Printing with an overlay fileUsing image overlays ensures that widely-used images are readily available and consistently reproduced. Image overlaysare independent documents that are merged into other documents during printing and thereby increase the time requiredto print a job. To superimpose text on your document, it may be faster to use watermarks.To print with an overlay file, you must first create an overlay file. P.83 “Creating an overlay file” When [Overlay Image] is selected together with the N-up feature, the overlay images are printed per sheet, not perpage. If you want to print them on each page, select the [Print on Each Page] check box in [Overlay Image] on the[Effect] tab. P.57 “[Effect] tab” Both the overlay file and the documents on which you superimpose the overlay image must be created in the samesize, color mode, and orientation.Printing an overlay image as a print job1 Display the [Effect] tab menu.2 Select the overlay image name to be used in the [Overlay Image] box.If you use different overlay images for odd/even pages or use overlay images only for the specified pages,select [Multiple Overlays] and set them in its dialog box. P.61 “Multiple Overlays”3 If you want to print the overlay image over the document, select the [Print Over theDocument] check box.4 Set any other print options you require and click [OK].5 Click [OK] or [Print] to send the print job. The print job is printed with the overlay image.
