separate print jobs for multiple copies

rbuser

Hi!

I have a problem printing a one page report with multiple copies to a
printer that has automatic duplexing activated.

It seems that RB only creates one print job and the printer driver then
arranges the pages and decides to print them on one sheet of paper using
the duplex function.

Is there any way to let RB create separate print jobs if the user selects
more than one copy?

Any help is appreciated.

TIA

Thiemo

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Thiemo Sammern
Lexiter GmbH
Salzburg, Austria
tsamm@lexiter.com
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digitalmetaphors

You'll need to call Report.Print twice if you want two separate print jobs
created.

Is Report.PrinterSetup.Duplex set to dpNone? You could try to generate a
blank page after the first report prints. In the Report.BeforePrint event,
you can set the visibility of the summary band by checking to see if you are
printing to the printer with

if (Report.DeviceType = dtPrinter) then

Place a subreport in the summary band of the report, so that it takes up a
full page. Resize the detail band of the subreport to be the page height.
One detail band should generate even if it doens't print anything.

Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Hi

Tanks for your help but these solutions don't work for me. :-(

I want my users to select the printer, enter the number of copies and
maybe change the printer settings, so I set the "ShowPrintDialog"
property to "True". So I don't know the number of copies the user wants
when I call the Report.Print method because the user enters the number of
copies in the Print-Dialog that shows up after I call Report.Print.

If I could call the Print-Dialog without printing, then that would solve
my problem...

I also can't work with blank dummy pages because the length of the report
is variable, it can be anything from one to 50 pages...

Any more suggestions?

TIA

Thiemo

In article <8EAE82296ACCD311A039005004E0CAC0048FBC@DMSERVER>,
support@digital-metaphors.com says...

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Thiemo Sammern
Lexiter GmbH
Salzburg, Austria
tsamm@lexiter.com
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digitalmetaphors

You can launch the print dialog as in the main reports demo #123. I made a
modified version of this demo which reads the copies from the dialog and
prints the report to the printer the specified number of times as separate
print jobs:

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/tips/BreakCopiesIntoJobs.zip


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser