Jumbled Script Printing ... win2000

[Fritz Jung]

Perhaps someone her can help me with an oddity...

Every morning I run say... 12 'report' scripts (some with multi print copies via duplicating the print script set)

This from fmp6 over a win 2000 network printer...

Oddly, They don't run in order AND I even see 3 reports from script one AND the other 2 reports from script one later in stack.

IT doesn't actually MIX one report into another... BUT just the copies OF the reports...

anyone else terrorized by this?

Fritz

[Vaughan]

Each duplicated print step is a separate job as far as the print driver is concerned, so it's possible that other user's print output could become "mixed in" with yours.

Why their order changes I don;t know. Perhaps the printer driver is playing games with you?

This may be an OS-level issue rather than a FMP issue, though I'd be checking that the printing script *really is* doing what you think (expect) it is meant to be doing.

[Fritz Jung]

Thanks for the reply Vaughan...

There is no mixing from other users... and you may be right, it may be an OS/print driver issue... I am experimenting with pauses in the scripts...

The reason I use multiple print commands (for number of copies) in a single script, is because I can quicky add or remove the print qty.

I will contine to shed on this..

Fritz