printer peculiarity/printcodes question

[Kenneth Brody]

Jeremy Anderson wrote:
> 
> I'm having a rather interesting thing happen with an lj4100mfp (using
> the 4050 printcodes).  When a single job is submitted (a rather large
> job, say 300 single-page forms) just once, the printer runs off three
> copies.
[...]
> We're using fp 4.5, running on MP-RAS.

What's "MP-RAS"?

Do all print jobs do this, or only one particular report?

What is the difference between the times it prints three copies and when
it prints only one?

What is the exact destination specified to filePro for this report?

What is the exact definition of the "printer init" code specified in the
printcode table you're using for this report?  What is the exact
definition of the init code specified in this report's F8/options?

By "three copies", do you mean it prints pages 1 through 300, then 1
through 300 again, and finally 1 through 300 a third time, or do you
mean three copies of page 1, three copies of page 2, three copies of
page 3, and so on?

[...]
> My co-worker's suspicion is that the job is not being properly
> terminated, which confuses the printer, and it starts all over again.

If it's printing the entire report through, then printing a second copy,
and then a third (as opposed to three copies of each page), I highly
doubt it's something in the printer, as this would mean that the printer
had retained a copy of the entire 300 page report in its memory.

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