Chaim, this really depends on the printer to a great extent. Can you specify the printer for the app, and which printer control language does it use?

If it's an HP, many HPs accept what are called "printer macros". These allow you to store the image with the printer and then reference the image with an escape code. Been a long time, and I think probably a lot of printers do this now but they may not refer to the feature as a "macro" any more.

You might want to check to see if your printer supports a "watermark" feature. This is generally implemented in the same way.

Think of the watermark as an overlay (from the printer's POV). You basically tell the printer you want this overlay at a certain position on the page, and it's handled along with whatever else goes on that page. You specify the position/offsets etc to match your needs (even though a watermark is usually stretched over a whole page, there's no reason why it has to be, it can just as well simulate letterhead).

Again, it's all really printer-dependent. For example, if it's a Postscript printer they have an entirely different method of handling this need than PCL would use.

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