Re: field coding for duplex printing

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Thanks - however looking at the product spec it does appear to have the
option to emulate PCL5 and 6 so in theory at least it can be made to work
with the Print command. Whether it can do this with the standard driver or
needs a universal PCL driver or a change to the product's setup I cannot
say. In the circumstances this is all rather acadamic :)

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Mathew Moore wrote:
hi graham, it is a Lexmark T644, we had the optional duplex unit and
2 extra trays installed, however it seems the 3rd tray will be
redundant from now on. many thanks

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

You are welcome :)
What was the model of the printer?
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Mathew Moore wrote:
FAO Graham
i have managed to solve the problem, and i didn't have to use fields
codes. however many thanks for your very helpful response. the
field coding worked on another priner we have which has (PCL) at
the end of the name whereas the printer we use for main documents
has (MS) at the end, so i went into control panel, printers,
printer properties, advanced, printer defaults, and set the printer
to print on long edge(book format) i had tried this in the past
but it never seemed to work right, however it does now, so i have
tray 1 on our headed paper and 1 sided and then tray 2 plain paper
on duplex.
just incase anyone else comes accross this problem. as it has taken
me over a month to sort this out.

many thanks again for your assistance

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Are you using a PCL driver for the printer?
If the driver does not accept PRINT commands, then my second
suggestion would be the only viable option I can think of.

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Mathew Moore wrote:
many thanks graham, this is what i tried from the other
discussion. i have put the code at the beginning of the document
where i want it to print duplex, the the other code to revert it
back at the end of the document. however it seems to print one
line of what can only be described as gobbledigook on the back of
each page and seems to want to print this forever. any further
advice would be greatly appreciated.

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

If your printer driver accepts PCL commands, you may be able to
use a PRINT field. A PRINT field is simply a type of field that
allows you to send instructions directly to the printer.

There are 3 possible data values for duplex setting: PRINT
27"&l0S" simplex PRINT 27"&l1S" vertical duplex . PRINT 27"&l2S"
horizontal duplex (bookformat)

The codes after PRINT are 27 (escape), double quote, ampersand,
lowercase L, 0, 1 or 2, uppercase S and finally terminated with a
double quote.

Thus for horizontal duplex you would insert the following field :
{ PRINT 27"&l2S" }

Insert the field at the start of the range that you wish to be
printed duplex and revert to simplex at the end.

Alternatively install a second copy of the printer driver. Have
one configured to print duplex, the other to print simplex, then
print the simplex pages to the appropriate driver and the duplex
pages to the other - see http://www.gmayor.com/fax_from_word.htm
for more on switching between printers.

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Mathew Moore wrote:
hello, i have read one of the discussions regarding setting
duplex printing within a word document and am having the same
problem. i am trying to do a similar
thing with the duplex printing i.e code it into a word
template, i have followed the instructions given in that
discussion using the field codes for printing, however when i
then try and print the document from our client database (we
use open gi if you have heard of it) it tries to print one line
of random text and so far i have let it get to approx 20 pages
before switching off the printer and starting again. do i need
to input another field to stop the duplex at the end of the
document, i presume i must be doing something wrong. my ideal
result would be to print tray 1 single sided and then tray 2
duplex, for that would i put the field code
where i want it to start duplex printing. your help would be
very much appreciated, oh and the templates are set in word
2003, but someof the computers are running word 2007.
many thanks

mathew


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