Multi-part Form Printing

[Nancy Palmquist]

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.
> 
> Rodgers Hemer
> 206.523.2329
> r.hemer at w-link.net
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Rodgers,

If the document is a FORM in the filepro sense, you can also put the word PRINT 
in your document once for each time you want it printed.


declare copies(2,.0),count(2,.0)

Copies="2";count="0"

loop  if: copies gt count
    then: print;count=count+"1";goto loop

This is a great way to print mailing labels with multiple copies.  You can also 
give the user an option as to how many copies they want.  Any set size form can 
be handled with this logic.  The PRINT command is only valid in a *report 
session.  If you need to the this in *Clerk, you would use FORM logic.  Just a 
bit different but it will work also.

A filePro solution.


Now the printcode solution can be included in the form init codes so that would 
work from *report and *clerk.  Great solution also.

Nancy
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