Injecting a watermark on images as they are viewed

We have over 60k .tif images on a Unix server. These images are
engineering drawings from A to J size. When an image is selected via IE or
Netscape our current proprietary viewer displays the image. We need to
watermark each image when displayed or when printed. These are legacy
images and it is unrealistic to go back and tag the images in their native
format.
The use of our proprietary viewer is not mandatory, but due to our
diverse user community and the detail needed by the engineers it is a very
low cost solution, actually free at this point.
We need a viewer that, when a user requests an image, a watermark
automatically displays on the image in a predefined location, and if
printed the watermark prints also. The viewer would be on the client and
launched when the server image is requested via a web browser. We would
like the viewer to be activated by the host verses the image file type
defined by the browser. This would eliminate the watermark displaying on
other images if the client viewer was used to view other images on another
server.
Are there any COTS products that will satisfy this requirement, or can
you recommend a custom code solution?

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