Multi-part Form Printing

[Rodgers Hemer]

On May 6, 2008, at 4:17 PM, Jim Asman wrote:

> --------------- 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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Jim:

Thanks for the quick response.  I must need new glasses as I did find  
the command in the Technical Manual after you told me what to look for.

Rodgers Hemer