Printing failure mechanisms

[Bob Rasmussen]

Thanks Nancy. To be clear, with PFPOSTPRINT, filePro simply runs the 
command given, it does NOT check for a result code, correct?

On Tue, 20 Oct 2015, Nancy Palmquist via Filepro-list wrote:

> Bob,
>
> If the job is sent to WIN:laser as the destination in the printer setup or 
> you set the Printer Destination in your programming that way, the output goes 
> to the print queue for the printer called "laser" on your local printer.  I 
> think the WIN: part of the Destination accomplishes that.  The job is in the 
> normal print queue and can be controlled and held as needed.
>
> With a PFPOSTPRINT command, it is picking up a file you wrote, which is what 
> activates the command.  Then the command is doing whatever you asked it to 
> do.  You can load the file into a word processer, web browser, spreadsheet, 
> fax server, print server, etc.  That is a command line issue as to how that 
> is handled.
>
> That is how I understand the process and it seems to work for me on the many 
> computers I have setup with this.
>
> Nancy
>
> On 10/20/2015 12:11 PM, Bob Rasmussen via Filepro-list wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Does filePro, in general, have any mechanism to detect and react to the 
>> failure of a print job? Or is printing a one-way pipe? Specifically, what 
>> happens if a job launched via PFPOSTPRINT (on Windows-based filePro) fails?
>> 
>> Is the only way to deal with this possibility to rely on external queueing, 
>> such as with an LPR/LPD queue?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> ....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.
>> 
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Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

personal e-mail: ras at anzio.com
  company e-mail: rsi at anzio.com
           voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time)
             fax: (US) 503-624-0760
             web: http://www.anzio.com
  street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc.
                  10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9
                  Portland, OR  97223  USA