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MS Office Forum / Word / Long Documents / September 2006Priting to two printer trays
Sorry to post to this group but I find it's the most helpful. We're having a problem printing our letters. This has just started although we've been using the same system for ages. We changed to Office 2003 recently. When printing a two or more page letter, our macro prints one copy to a specific tray which contains letterhead paper, and the second and subsequent pages to 'autoselect' tray. The problem now seems to be that for some users (not all) the second pages are printing on the same tray as the letterhead (tray 2). we use a printx2 macro for this which does the above as well as prints a file copy from a draft printer. We're wondering if the best way to fix this is to either change the letter template to say print to specific trays (rather than autoselect for the second page) or change the code in our macro to specify the trays, which it doesn't at the moment. Hope this is clear - can anyone help? We can't help unless you show us your logic :-) Generically, this is a risky operation :-) The ability to change paper trays in the middle of a running job is a printer-driver-dependant facility that many printers won't support. If the user's workstation has the wrong version of the printer driver, strange results will occur. Assuming that all users are printing to a print server, and the printer driver is on the print server, you have a higher chance of making it work. Should you specify the trays explicitly? Well, I would. If you allow the tray to autoselect, there's nothing to stop the printer choosing tray 2 for all pages. But such a macro will fail if the printer in use doesn't have the correct trays, so you need to test the printer name to make sure you're headed for the correct printer, and handle the error if you're running on someone's laptop... Cheers On 6/9/06 8:25 PM, in article 1157538337.487014.235530@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com, "Jacqui" <jacqueline.fulton@semplefraser.co.uk> wrote: > Sorry to post to this group but I find it's the most helpful. We're > having a problem printing our letters. This has just started although [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Hope this is clear - can anyone help?  SignaturePlease reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie <john@mcghie.name> Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410 To add to John's answer, dealing with paper trays an printer control is a tricky business at the best of times. You might like to take a look at this article. Controlling the Printer from Word VBA Part 1: Using VBA to Select the Paper Tray http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=101 SignatureRegards Jonathan West - Word MVP www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk Please reply to the newsgroup Keep your VBA code safe, sign the ClassicVB petition www.classicvb.org > Sorry to post to this group but I find it's the most helpful. We're > having a problem printing our letters. This has just started although [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Hope this is clear - can anyone help?
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