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MS Office Forum / Word / Printing and Fonts / November 2004How to print a duplex page and have the printer go back to default setting
At work we have an HP Laserjet 2300dtn which can duplex print. We have to manually set it for the duplex printing and then when through, have to go back and change it to the default setting as it retains the last setting. We print more than one of the document we are duplexing and there is no consistent amount. It depends on the number of staff for that shift (3 shifts). Is there a way that the duplex/default settings can be automatically done without having to go back to the printer settings? Cross-posted to printingfonts & vba.beginners  SignatureTonya Marshall Hi Tonya, take a look at this article Controlling the Printer from Word VBA Part 2: Using VBA to control Duplex, Color Mode and Print Quality http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=116 SignatureRegards Jonathan West - Word MVP www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk Please reply to the newsgroup > At work we have an HP Laserjet 2300dtn which can duplex print. We have to > manually set it for the duplex printing and then when through, have to go [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Cross-posted to printingfonts & vba.beginners Thanks, Jonathan. I sent myself the link at work and will post back about how it worked, etc. Tonya Marshall > Hi Tonya, > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Part 2: Using VBA to control Duplex, Color Mode and Print Quality > http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=116 When I run the macro I get a compile error: Sub or Function not defined and it highlights "SetDuplex" 3 These are the choices for the printer: Default Print Settings Duplex Duplex - 180 Tonya Marshall > Hi Tonya, > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > > > Cross-posted to printingfonts & vba.beginners You need to include all the code at the end of the article as well as the small code sample near the start SignatureRegards Jonathan West - Word MVP www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk Please reply to the newsgroup > When I run the macro I get a compile error: Sub or Function not > defined and it highlights "SetDuplex" 3 [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] >> > >> > Cross-posted to printingfonts & vba.beginners OK. I'm at home and don't have a duplex printer to test it on but wanted to check and make sure I did it right. I created a template and put in the printduplexbooklet macro which went into the NewMacros module and put a button on a toolbar I named duplex.. I created Module1 into which I copied and pasted the code at the end of the article. I've never created another module within VB so am checking if I did it right. I right-clicked on the modules folder/insert/module and it came out named Module1. I will send the template to work and test it out tomorrow barring any warnings or "don't do that" from you. Tonya Marshall > You need to include all the code at the end of the article as well as the > small code sample near the start > OK. I'm at home and don't have a duplex printer to test it on but wanted > to check and make sure I did it right. I created a template and put in [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > and it came out named Module1. I will send the template to work and test > it out tomorrow barring any warnings or "don't do that" from you. Yes, that sounds right. SignatureRegards Jonathan West - Word MVP www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk Please reply to the newsgroup OK, at work now and tested it. It worked fine but I was unable to choose how many copies I wanted. We print several of the documents at one time and need to be able to control that part of it, too. > OK. I'm at home and don't have a duplex printer to test it on but wanted > to check and make sure I did it right. I created a template and put in [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > You need to include all the code at the end of the article as well as the > > small code sample near the start > OK, at work now and tested it. It worked fine but I was unable to > choose how many copies I wanted. We print several of the documents at > one time and need to be able to control that part of it, too. You can change this line ActiveDocument.PrintOut Background:=False to this Dialogs(wdDialogFilePrint).Show This will display the print dialog so that the user can choose how many copies are printed. Alternatively, you can simply set the Copies parameter of the PrintOut method to the appropriate value, like this ActiveDocument.PrintOut Background:=False, Copies:=3 SignatureRegards Jonathan West - Word MVP www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk Please reply to the newsgroup I chose the first option as it's not a static amount. Jonathan, those macros must have taken a lot of thought and time to write. I am so pleased with the results - it worked smoothly without any hitches and I truly appreciate what you have done. Thank you so much for walking me through all of that, and I had the easy part to do. Just copy and paste. As I said in a previous post, I had never worked with modules and I had a kind of Aha! moment there. Speculation and multiple possibilities about modules have been swirling around so I'm going to start a new subject about modules as I have a lot of questions. Thank you again for all your help and macros. Tonya Marshall >> OK, at work now and tested it. It worked fine but I was unable to >> choose how many copies I wanted. We print several of the documents at [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > ActiveDocument.PrintOut Background:=False, Copies:=3 |
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