I looked in my notes and decided to copy below everything that I thought might
be helpful. Notice the one posting that mentions there was a "space" in front
of the tray name... Also, try typing PRNSETUP INFO to see what it "thinks" the
tray names are, and PRNSETUP HELP to see what options you have available.
Should also be able to do PRNSETUP TRAYS
Karen
PRNSETUP TRAY_NAME <Printer Specific Tray name>
PRNSETUP TRAY_NAME Tray1
PRNSETUP TRAY_NAME MP Tray
Someone noticed that it seemed there was a space in front of the trayname, so
this worked:
print inv_invoice where invnum = '116262' option printer |Tray ' Tray3'
7.5.25.30720 now include the following new CVAL functionsto capture the
PRNSETUP INFO results.
(CVAL('PRN_Status')) To capture Printer Status
(CVAL('PRN_Orientation')) To capture Printer Orientation
(CVAL('PRN_Size')) To capture Printer Paper Size
(CVAL('PRN_Source')) To capture Printer Paper Source
(CVAL('PRN_Quality')) To capture Printer Print Quality (DPI)
(CVAL('PRN_Copies')) To capture Printer Copies
(CVAL('PRN_ColorMode')) To capture Printer Color Mode
(CVAL('PRN_DuplexMode')) To capture Printer Duplex Mode
(CVAL('PRN_Collation')) To capture Printer Collation
-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Chitiea <[email protected]>
To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]>
Sent: Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:07 pm
Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Printer Tray Selection
Dave:
I've not been down this road with R:Base, so I'm just throwing stuff out there.
Does (CVAL('PRN_SIZE')) factor in here?
B
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Printer Tray Selection
From: Dave McCann <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, January 21, 2013 3:31 pm
To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List)
I hadn't thought about the paper type assignments. Unfortunately, since
this application will be used in many different environments, what I'm trying
to accomplish is to allow user-defined paper tray assignments for multiple
copies of an Invoice by allowing the user to open the printer dialog with
PRNSETUP then capture the choices made and saving them in a configuration
table. That table is used to lookup the print parameters when they go to
print invoices later, so all choices are setup in advance as to where Copy 1
goes, where Copy 2 goes, etc. This is to make the printer/tray setup process
as flexible as possible for the user.
To lookup the paper type, there doesn't seem to be an appropriate CVAL
parameter to do that, otherwise, I could certainly try that.
The odd thing is, I don't have any trouble getting a specific tray to work (if
I enter the name of the tray properly into my table) but I've found the
CVAL('PRN_SOURCE') returns "Automatically Select" or in some cases (seems to be
printer driver specific) it'll return "UPPER" or "LOWER" but these don't
correspond to the naming convention of the Trays in the printer driver (more
typical are "TRAY 1" or "TRAY 2" and so on). If I set the tray to "LOWER"
prior to using PRINT, goes to wrong tray, but if I set the tray to "TRAY 2"
then it'll work.
At this point, I will just have the user manually enter the Tray name into my
configuration table, they'll have to validate the name themselves.
Maybe this is just something Team R:base needs to look at.
On 1/21/2013 12:08 PM, Bruce Chitiea wrote:
TMBNHNT:
I had a similar situation with another (non-RBase) app printing to a dual-tray
Epson WF-7520. No matter my selection, the job always printed from the default
tray (Tray #1).
After assigning paper size to tray at the printer's on-board control panel, the
printing application requires only specification of the paper size. The job
always finds the correct tray.
Does the printer have an on-board control panel at which you can assign paper
size to tray?
Bruce
SafeSectors, Inc.
eCondoMetrics
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Printer Tray Selection
From: Dave McCann <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, January 18, 2013 4:41 pm
To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List)
I'm trying to use PRNSETUP and CVAL to allow user to select and save
printer tray configurations for specific reports.
PRNSETUP
SET VAR vprnname=(CVAL('CURRENTPRINTER'))
SET VAR vprntray=(CVAL('PRN_SOURCE'))
The values returned into vprnname and vprntray are then stored in a
table and used with the print later, however, my vprntray ALWAYS returns
"Automatically Select" as the value, now matter how the printer settings
are changed. I'm using 9.5 32-bit latest release, I may be losing my
mind but at one point I was sure this process worked as I wanted.
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Dave McCann
Classic Micro Systems
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Dave McCann
Classic Micro Systems
