Multi-part Form Printing

[Jim Asman]

--------------- Original Message ---------------
At 04:15P Wed May 07 2008, Walter Vaughan wrote:

> Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 12:10:31PM -0700, Rodgers Hemer wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Thanks to Nancy and Richard for their suggestions.  However, Jim  
> >>Asman's solution (see below) is the only one that satisfies my  
> >>requirements.  Just printing more than one copy, by whatever means,  
> >>will not properly print the job on 2-part carbon paper.  Each page  
> >>must be printed twice before the next page is printed which is what  
> >>the PCL code below does.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >To clarify for those who didn't intuit what you're doing: you're laser
> >printing on interleaved 2-part NCR paper which you then paint with that
> >crazy glue that only glues the pages of a set together, and not the
> >sets themselves, right?
> >
> 
> It took me forever to figure out what was the magic about carbonless 
> paper. It's nothing more than alternating colored sheets of paper one 
> after the other.
> 
> So that's why PRINT; PRINT would not work for a two page report. You 
> have to print page 1 twice and then page 2 twice.
> 
> No magic and certainly it's not like impact style carbonless paper. 
> Nothing more than white & yellow alternating paper in a 8-1/2" by 11" ream.

Of course if the printer should pull two sheets through successfully,
you are then out of sequence. Not fatal, but you would have to pay
attention when collating.

The other approach might be to have two input trays with white in one
and canary in the other. Print two forms with the appropriate tray
selection command in each one. Paper would be less expensive and a
feed problem would be less catastrophic. This might be problematic if
you wanted four different colors.


Jim 
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