The Black Ice printer driver can also generate watermarks on the printed images.
When enabling the “Print Watermark” checkbox on the Save As dialog tab, the ‘Choose watermark’ button will become active.
Choose watermark
Add watermark to the first page only - When this checkbox is checked, the watermark will be printed on the first page of the document only.
Unique watermark on the first page - When this checkbox is checked, the watermark on the first printed image can be different than the watermarks on the other printed images.
With Black Ice Printer Drivers one can specify separate watermarks on Portrait and Landscape pages and also separate watermarks on the first portrait page and on the first landscape page. Each watermark can be specified with the following options:
Watermark image file - Specifies the image file that should be used as a watermark. The supported image formats are TIFF, BMP, and JPG. If needed, the printer driver will convert the image used as watermark to the format of the page that is currently printed. For example, if a 24 bit color image is specified as watermark and the printer driver is set to generate monochrome images, the 24 bit watermark image will be dithered to monochrome and the monochrome image will be added to the page as a watermark. Important Note: Please make sure images are located in a directory where all printer driver users have read access privileges or higher.
Watermarks can be stretched to fit the page, separate watermark image files can also be set as portrait and landscape oriented pages. This way one can specify a portrait oriented watermark for portrait oriented pages and a landscape oriented watermark image for landscape oriented pages.
Position - Sets the mode for how watermarks are printed to the page. The available options are:
Stretch to fit: Stretches the watermark image to size of the image page. Depending on the size of the watermark, stretching can distort the watermark image.
Stretch to width: Stretches the watermark image to fit the width of the page. Stretching will not distort the watermark image but the length of the image can become longer than the page itself and parts of the watermark may not be visible on the page.
Center image: Prints the watermark to the center of the page. No stretching will be done.
Tile: Prints a watermark tiled on the page. The original size of the watermark image is not changed and the watermarks will be cropped if they do not fit on the page entirely.
Visibility- The visibility value determines how visible the watermark is on the page. Lower percentage value produces a lighter watermark; and higher value produces a more visible watermark.
Please note: Images and documents have their own DPI settings. For best results please make sure the watermark image has the same DPI as the desired output.
If e.g. a 72 DPI watermark image is placed on a 300 DPI output, the watermark image may appear smaller than the desired size.