As promised, I checked all suggestions and here is what finally did it:
set reportbehavior 80
** 1st preprinted document
set printer to name \\printserver\inv1
_pcopies = 3
_peject='none'
printjob
go top in mycursor
report form \\server\rep1 to printer noconsole
=inkey(2)
endprintjob
** second preprinted document
set printer to name \\printserver\inv2
Printjob
go top in mycursor
report form \\server\rep2 to printer noconsole
=inkey(2)
endprintjob
and so on
The trick is to make the printer wait 2 seconds after printing the first
report, then iterate again through the loop and print the report again, until
the printjob is finished (determined by the _pcopies system variable setting).
This probably has to do with buffers, processor speeds and whatever. There is
no need to set printer off and on as I was doing .
After that, the program captures the second printer and processes the second
report in the same manner. In my real life application, this was done with all
five printers with no problems. BTW, make sure your preprinted form is of the
right thickness, because if the paper is too thin, some pages will be stuck and
you will loose the printing sequence.
Someone said he did not know about printjob - endprintjob. I knew about it
from the days of FP DOS, but never really paid attention to it. I tried it now,
in my desperation, and found that it works very well. I usually use a for -
next loop to do the same and instead of _pcopies use a variable. But the
printjob construct is good too.
Thanks again to all who helped me
Pamechu Umgobwe
Pamechu Umgobwe
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