Fletcher Johnson wrote:

> Dave,

>

> I have a form where I have one button that says "setup printer" which calls

> Sys(1037). This does work to set the desired printer. But if the user

> selects "duplex" (double sided) printing, the printer ignores it. In this

> case, the program has 4 separate calls to "report form ...." so that we can

> generate very differently formatted portions.

>

> When I add "prompt" to the report, it doesn't remember the duplex mode

> either (although it will then print in duplex mode).

>

> If I set the printer as the windows default printer and then set duplex on

> (again as the default), it still ignores the setting.

>

> Any idea how I get ask the user once to select a printer and then have those

> settings preserved for each report form call after that? The prompt option

> currently works, but they get it four times and each time, they have to

> specifically set it to use duplex printing.

>

Hi Fletcher,

Our app has to print purchase orders which have terms and conditions on

the back, so we need to print duplex. All printing and emails are

handled through a seperate app on another machine that processes them

from a queue. When someone wants to print a purchase order they just

pick a printer from the list presented to them. If they print to one

our canon printers called CLC3200 what happens is that I have set up a

second printer CLC3200-2 which prints to exactly the same place but is

defined as duplex. E.g.

cPrinter = "CLC3200"

set printer to name (cPrinter) && normal printing

cPrinter = "CLC3200-2"

set printer to name (cPrinter) && duplex printing

I looked at doing this through the windows API but found it too

complicated and in the mean time I got this working, and has been going

a couple of years now with no problems. Our orders can have a second

sheet and can also be printed in 3 colours, so there can be 6 report

calls, which would be a pain to set each one.

If you need any more information please let me know.

Peter