stopping page throw

rbuser

Hi,
I have an application that prints labels onto expensive "tie wrap" labels
using in the horticultural trade. They come in strips with 4 labels across
the strip.
A print routine may have to print labels for 2 or more part numbers (of
differing quantities), which is fine, except I am sending a new print
command for each part number. This throws a page to start each new print.
The page is a 4 wide strip of these expensive labels, so for example if the
print quantity is 5, then 3 labels are left blank as it prints the next 5
for the next part number.
The customer complains that this is an expensive waste.

Is there a way of stopping the print routine on the actual band it has got
to.

I am using version 7.03

kind regards

John

nicocizik

Hi John,

For future reference, please use your name when posting to these newsgroups
rather than your company name.

One option is to re-use the used label page and start printing on a specific
(empty) label. This way you can use all the labels on the page even though
some are already gone. Take a look at the following example on how this can
be done.

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/rbWiki/Delphi_Code/Layouts/How_To...Skip_Printing_a_Defined_Number_of_Labels

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

Hi Nico,
thanks for this.

I can see how this will allow me to set the next label (band) to use on the
current page, but can I stop a page throw happenings at the end of a label
print.

My application will run through a list and create lots of calls to a routine
that ends wilth "reportname.print", having sent it different parameters each
time.

It seems that at the end of each reportname.print there is a page throw; how
can I stop this?

If I can do this, then I can use the code example to calculate the start
position of the current label print.

many thanks for your help

John

nicocizik

Hi John,

Unfortunately this is not a current feature of the printer device in
ReportBuilder. By definition once a page has finished, an EndPage command
is sent to the printer which essentially ejects the paper. The code for
this can be found in the TppPrinterDevice.ReceivePage routine in the
ppPrnDev.pas file.

Moving forward we will consider adding a feature to control this in a later
release of ReportBuilder.

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com