Posted by Grant Foraker on July 28, 2009 at 15:20:50:
In Reply to: Re: Laser Generated FORMS posted by Stephen Auerbach on July 28, 2009 at 10:03:28:
My choice is to make the software print on all kinds of printers (printer independent if you will). Getting into PCL, fonts on DIMMs, etc gets too printer specific.
The forms in a font thing might work OK. Needs some more investigation to see if it's printer independent, can be activated from within Comet, and not too expensive.
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In my programs, I've used a INC file that prints all the form background stuff and a few titles and things. It's called via GOSUB/RETURN. I decided against the DES or ENTER/EXIT methods.
This code prints two copies. Each has a separate copy description. And each prints on a different color paper.
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LET PAGE = 0
LET OGROSS = 0
LET PTITLE$ = 'FILE COPY'
PRINT (1) (TR);(SETPRINTERINFO = 8, 260) ! TRAY 2 HAS WHITE PAPER
GOSUB PrintOrderCopy
LET PAGE = 0
LET OGROSS = 0
LET PTITLE$ = 'CUSTOMER COPY'
PRINT (1) (TR);(SETPRINTERINFO = 8, 261) ! TRAY 3 HAS YELLOW PAPER
GOSUB PrintOrderCopy
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Straightlining the code works for me. I could go to more copies by just adding another 5 lines each.
By the time the print job gets to the printer and comes out of sleep mode, Comet's done. Haven't bothered to do any big test to push a printer to max PPM.
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