how does report builder manages the "copies" property ?

rbuser

Hi there,

I'm using RB7 (7.03) on Delphi6 in laboratories with label printers.
Labels should be printed very fastly.

Unfortunately, it seems that report printer does handle the "number of
copies" the way every other application do.

example :
=> I'm on UltraEdit, I build a document and I print it. In the printer
setup dialog, I set the number of copies to 5 then I print.
The 5 lables are printed in a row and very fastly.

=> With Report Builder now ... I set the copies parameter to 5 then I
print. Whoaaa ... each label is printed at a time and it tooks about 10
times the first example took.

It seems report builder handle each copy as it was a independant report.

Is that possible and what can I do to correct this ?

best regards,

Etienne

nicocizik

Hi Etienne,

The reason you are seeing the behavior is that some printers do not natively
support copies of documents so by default ReportBuilder will take care of
this function. To disable this feature and allow your printer to handle
copying, simply set the published property
Report.PrinterSettings.DelegateCopies to True. This should speed things up
for you.


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rbuser

Thanks for your answer,

unfortunately not ...
I saw DelegateCopies in a recent post and tried it but it gave the same
result.

Best regards,

Etienne



In article <40434f0b$1@dm500.>, "Nico Cizik \(Digital Metaphors\)"

nicocizik

Etienne,

When DelegateCopies is set to True, ReportBuilder only sends one copy of the
report to the printer and the printer takes care of printing a certain
number of copies of that report. See the ppPrintr.pas file inside the
TppPrinter.PrinterSetupToDevMode method for the source for how the printer's
DevMode is set. If you are setting the DelegateCopies property to True and
ReportBuilder is still sending more than one report to the printer, the
property has either not been set for that specific report template or it is
being reset somewhere in your code.

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rbuser

Ok ... I'll check the template because the changing is made just before
the printing so it's impossible it can be changed between ...

best regards,

Etienne

In article <40436e02$1@dm500.>, "Nico Cizik \(Digital Metaphors\)"

nicocizik

Hi Etienne,

Are you loading templates or perhaps using report archives? If so, this
could be the reason you are loosing this value. Try tracing into the
ReportBuilder source and see if the printer device thinks DelegateCopies is
set to True. (ppPrnDev.pas file ... TppPrinterDevice.ReceivePage method.)

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rbuser

Ok I checked everything .... even the source code

the delegatecopeis is set to true, the collation is false
the preview (and print) happens just after that.

Report builder still seems to not delegate the copies to the printer...

Strange,

Etienne

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etienne@epiconcept.fr says...

rbuser

Ok Nico, I think I got the thing ...

it seems that entering the designermode get rid of those setup.

When printing directly, it works now.

so the two problems were :

1- "incompatible" delegatecopies with collation properties (thanks to
the code)
2- delegatecopies available in print, not in designer.

Thanks for all !

Etienne

In article <404377cc$1@dm500.>, "Nico Cizik \(Digital Metaphors\)"