Print copies

[Arny]

OK . . this may sound silly, but can anyone help me setup my printer inside a script so I can establish how many copies should be printed?

I have a table built that let's the user specify how many copies they want to print. These users also have several printers, so I need to use the dialogue box to let them pick the printer of choice.

Currently I use a 'loop' command to print the number of copies that the user has entered into their table. The problem with this is that the dialogue box comes up for each copy. It seems that if I could simply control the number of copies that are entered into the dialogue box I could eliminate the 'loop' as well as the problem of multiple dialogue boxes.

Thanx in advance . . .

[BrentHedden]

Each time the dialog box comes up, it should remember that last (only) number(s) that were entered in. There is no way that I'm aware of to do as you wanted. I'm sure that there is a plug-in available that would allow for this, but I don't know what to recommend.

This might not be what you are looking for, but it might just work. Set up your print script to first run the Print Setup (only one time is needed), then in the loop you have, Print [Perform without Dialog]. This will allow the users to select which printer first, then print X amount of copies to that printer.

[Arny]

Thanks . . in fact, I did try that and when I entered the loop the system automatically reset the printer to the 'default' printer and I didn't get the 2nd-plus copies that I wanted on the desired printer.

I'll keep trying and if I come up with something I'll let ya know

Thnx

Arny