Re: Print jobs get out of order between workstation and printer

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From: Andrew Howell (ajh_at_work)
Date: 12/08/04 

Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 10:29:57 -0000

Gene Wirchenko wrote:
> I do not use REPORT, but I thought there would be an option for
> the number of copies to print. If there is, use this, and presumably,
> you will have only two print jobs. There is still no guarantee, but
> it is far more likely they will print in the desired order.

That sounds good, I think there is a system variable you can set to
programmatically set the number of copies, something like _PCOPIES or
similar. Using FPW2.6 I can't do that but I just throw the print dialogue
and get the user to enter the number of copies manually.

Your application is printing 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, ..., x, x, x - that is
usually what you would get with more than one copy. Usually it is preferable
to sequence 1, 2, ..., x, 1, 2, ..., x, 1, 2, ..., x which we found requires
a printer with collating capability (which aren't hard to find, they are
just more expensive because they usually have a hard drive in to take the
whole print job before interleaving the pages and then running off however
many copies.)

But my understanding of printer spooling* is that it IS a queue [ie FIFO by
definition.] Maybe that changed since our (NT4) servers but if that is still
the case then it somehow means your app is finishing rendering of the report
pages and submitting them in a non sequential order.

* I may well stand corrected in this understanding by the end of the day :-) 

--
HTH
Andrew Howell

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