Print script step won't restore

October 11, 200520 yr

I'm using FM 7, and each day I print out dozens of order invoices and labels to ship orders to customers. For several years, I was on one printer, using dialog box interruptions to prompt changing paper trays in the printer. Well, I bit the bullet and purchased 2 smaller printers (one for labels, one for paper), but my Print script step won't tell between the two. They have different names, and both show up as different printers in every application's dialog box, but when I try to use "Print [Restore, No Dialog]", it prints to whatever printer was used last, rather than using the Print Options I've stored with the script step.

Any thoughts are welcome.

J

October 11, 200520 yr

You can call the script "printsetup[restore, perform without dialogue]" and then call the print script.

Usually it is a good idea to display print and printsetup scripts with dialog so that a user can make changes if any.

October 11, 200520 yr

AFAiK this is a long standing problem with FMP.

Once FMP has initiated the print sequence it hands over control to the OS. You can store many pre-defined printing requirements with the print setup script step, but not determine the difference in nature between different printers. Obviously a printer without envelope feeder can't print the envelopes, but you can't tell FMP that's the case. It's then up to users to determine the output printer.

I wonder how other applications handle it ?

October 17, 200520 yr

I've read (somewhere - I can't recall exactly where) that FM 8 has solved this issue of "Print [Restore, No Dialog]" not communicating with the Mac OS X to hold the printing settings.

I've created two seperate scripts for two seperate printers, and although it seems to hold the options for each printing option (ie: number of copies) it does not hold the choice of printer.

Has anyone else found this to be the case ?

Darrin.

October 19, 200520 yr

FM8 holds the printer name in the script, which is good for 1 user that does not change printers. I have foud this to work in FM8 Advanced, but I'm sure it works in FM8 also. Now if we could just script variable printers.