Ben:
>I don't recall if I suggested this before, but if you're printing in a >loop, try placing a pause just after the print statement... for a >12ppm printer I'd start with pause 5 and maybe shorten from there. I had suggested this to her but she didn't want to do it. I assume that it wouldn't slow the actual printing down because even with a couple second pause between jobs the program would still probably be faster than the output from the printer. The problem she had was that adding even a 3 second pause between 2000 print jobs would mean an extra 1 hr 40 min before the computer would free up to do other jobs. As it is now, the RBase program zips through all the print jobs and then is immediately freed up. I also suggested a longer pause between say every 50 jobs. We haven't tried this and maybe that's a better option. Again she wouldn't go for it if the computer doesn't free up. Javier: >Is there a particular reason why you are printing >individual reports and not one big report with page breaks between >users/account/etc.? There is sort of a reason. I loop through by customer, look at a bunch of conditions, write data to separate summary output files and to separate tables based on the conditions, and (the big kicker) is that she wants a .pdf version for each customer saved separately. If I have one big report then there won't be separate files for her 'client history' folder. There was also a funky report design. The top of the report needed to be a tear-off coupon that fits in the envelope window. If the report goes onto multiple pages, she wanted the coupon to only be at the top of the first page, so it needed to be in a Report Header. At the same time there needed to be the company's and the customer's address information at the top of every page, so that was the Page Header stuff. If I defined a break header on the clientID, then the Page Header would be at the TOP of the report, not the coupon. >which would indicate that is not the size of the files but the sheer >number, I agree. Troy: >How is that printer attached to the network? Maybe you should try >getting an Intel Netport and attaching that to the network, It already is attached with a printer card (don't know if it's Intel Netport or another brand, maybe a JetDirect). Karen ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
