Haven't played with COLOR in a few years, but the DDS reference says "COLOR is valid on IPDS and IPDS AFP(*YES) printers." <p>Can you provide the type/model of the printer, and the *DEVD and *OUTQ definitions?

Be careful. <p>The COLOR keyword was originally intended for a dot matrix printer with a multi-colored ribbon. The use of the COLOR keyword today is still restricted to a miniscule number of printers. <p>It is possible to create a workstation definition that emulates one of the listed printers. AFP(*YES) on its own will most likely not work. <p>Dave

Dale, <BR>
thank you so much for responding. Today we were able to get COLOR and FNTCHRSET keyword to work together with the following: <BR>
1. compile or override the *PRTF in *AFPDS <BR>
2. printer must have IPDS chip installed and set to device type *IPDS and with AFP(*YES)

I need to print color on one line and a shaded bar (not a shaded box) on another. The shaded bar need to have bigger font in it. <p>I am using DDS to generate the *PRTF with devtype(*AFPDS) <BR>
I am sucessful in getting the shaded bar by using OVERLAY <BR>
and bigger font by using FNTCHRSET to work but <BR>
just cannot get the COLOR to come out. <p>The printer has IPDS chip installed. <BR>
I read that the COLOR keyword does not work with *AFPDS. <BR>
so I tried changing it to *IPDS, but then it said FNTCHRSET not valid. <p>does anyone know how to get the COLOR keyword to work with shaded overlay ? <BR>
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