Multi-part Form Printing

[Jim Asman]

--------------- Original Message ---------------
At 04:16P Tue May 06 2008, Rodgers Hemer wrote:

> This is a filePro printing question.  SCO 6.0, filePro 5.0.14, HP4250
> 
> I need to print a multi-page document from dreport on 2-part  
> carbonless paper.  The report does print but it treats the 2-part  
> paper as if it were single sheets, in effect separating the carbons.   
> I do not want to print the copies separately as that will require a  
> laborious collating job after each printing of a document.
> 
> Is there any way to command the HP printer to print each page twice  
> in a row, thus printing the same page on each piece of the 2-part  
> set?  I could not find such a command in the HP Technical Reference  
> Manual.  And I could not think of a trick in filePro that would  
> accomplish the required result.
> 
> I would appreciate any suggestions that you might offer.

Sure...

<esc>&l###X

where ### represents the number of copies. BTW, that's a lowercase
ell, not a numeral one.


Jim 
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