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edited September 2001 in General
I am trying to print laser checks with an attachment ( if necessary ) to a
laser printer. My question is how to select the paper trays with the
following assumptions:

1 - HP laser printer with 2 trays. Upper tray has the checks. Lower tray
has plain paper.
2 - I will always have enough paper in both trays.

I would like to print a check and then if needed an attachment on plain
paper from the lower tray.
How do I create this kind of report and select paper trays?

Thank you

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  • edited September 2001

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    Tech Tip: Selecting Paper Bins for Each Page
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    Sometimes you may want to print the first page of a report to the
    manual bin and then print the remaining pages to the default bin.

    You can use the Report.OnStartPage event to set the bin for any page.


    Example:

    procedure TForm1.ppReport1OnStartPageEvent(Sender:TObject);
    var
    lsBinName: String;

    begin

    if ppReport1.AbsolutePageNo = 1 then
    lsBinName := ppReport1.PrinterSetup.BinNames[3]
    else
    lsBinName := ppReport1.PrinterSetup.BinNames[1];


    ppReport1.Engine.Page.PrinterSetup.BinName := lsBinName;


    end;



    Note: The above example assumes the manual bin is 4th in the list
    (remember its a 0 based index). To account for different print drivers,
    you could search for the 'manual' bin in code by performing a search on
    the printer's available bin names:

    for liBin := 0 to ppReport1.PrinterSetup.BinNames.Count-1 do
    if Pos('manual', ppReport1.PrinterSetup.BinNames[liBin]) > 0 then
    begin
    lsBinName := ppReport1.PrinterSetup.BinNames[liBin];
    break;

    end;


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    Best regards,

    Nard Moseley
    Digital Metaphors
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