Network printing / dual tray printers

[AndrewBruno]

I'm working for the first time on a network with 2 printers. Both are HP 2300 dual tray printers, connected direct to the server. Each file in FM6 (Windows) has 8 standard simple scripts for printing ; Tray 1 portrait current record, etcetera, for each combination of tray orientation and current / browsed records. These scripts are called up as required. ( We used headed paper in 1 tray and plain paper in the other, and all printing is script contolled without dialogue boxes)

All worked fine with a single printer. What I want is for Workstations A,B and C to use printer 1 ( always) and Workstations D, E and F to use printer 2 ( always).

I have bought Afeina's ProPrint plug-in, which seems OK for setting the default printer but does'nt follow the saved print settings.

Is it that the FM script will save orientaion and records but not the tray ? If so, what is the workaround ?

Help desparately needed and appreciated.

Andrew Bruno

[vr5150]

I figured out how to solve this problem years ago.

Here is how:

First - Go to the layout you would like to print a letter size and go to page setup.

Second - Go to print from file menu

Third - Go to Filemaker from pull down menu and make all the need changes here then choose Copies and pages from pull down menu

Fourth - Choose tray and Print

Now go back to your Filemaker print script and select it as if you were going to edit it. Now hit ok and it will give you the dialog for pagesetup / sort / etc - choose replace for page setup.

This fixed it for our Xerox / Canon / Ricoh and other machines.