Fletcher Johnson wrote:
Dave,
I have a form where I have one button that says "setup printer" which calls
Sys(1037). This does work to set the desired printer. But if the user
selects "duplex" (double sided) printing, the printer ignores it. In this
case, the program has 4 separate calls to "report form ...." so that we can
generate very differently formatted portions.
When I add "prompt" to the report, it doesn't remember the duplex mode
either (although it will then print in duplex mode).
If I set the printer as the windows default printer and then set duplex on
(again as the default), it still ignores the setting.
Any idea how I get ask the user once to select a printer and then have those
settings preserved for each report form call after that? The prompt option
currently works, but they get it four times and each time, they have to
specifically set it to use duplex printing.
Hi Fletcher,
Our app has to print purchase orders which have terms and conditions on
the back, so we need to print duplex. All printing and emails are
handled through a seperate app on another machine that processes them
from a queue. When someone wants to print a purchase order they just
pick a printer from the list presented to them. If they print to one
our canon printers called CLC3200 what happens is that I have set up a
second printer CLC3200-2 which prints to exactly the same place but is
defined as duplex. E.g.
cPrinter = "CLC3200"
set printer to name (cPrinter) && normal printing
cPrinter = "CLC3200-2"
set printer to name (cPrinter) && duplex printing
I looked at doing this through the windows API but found it too
complicated and in the mean time I got this working, and has been going
a couple of years now with no problems. Our orders can have a second
sheet and can also be printed in 3 colours, so there can be 6 report
calls, which would be a pain to set each one.
If you need any more information please let me know.
Peter
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