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Conference 7.286::postscript_printing

Title:	Digital PostScript printers and their associated software

Moderator:	REGENT::LASKOHER

Created:	Wed Jan 24 1990
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	7230
Total number of notes:	31971

7224.0. "Windows 95/NT multiple copies in duplex on LPS17/600" by DOOSJE::HERTA (For something fulfilled this hour, loved, or endured) Tue Jun 03 1997 10:47

Windows NT V4.0 SP2, Windows 95, LPS17/600

If a file contains an odd number of pages, and you request multiple copies of
that file be printed in duplex on an LPS17/600, the even numbered copies start 
at the back of the last page of the odd numbered copies.  E.g. if you request 
two duplexed printouts of a three page document, you get the following output:

	copy 1 page 1 is on sheet 1 front side
	copy 1 page 2 is on sheet 1 back side
	copy 1 page 3 is on sheet 2 front side
	copy 2 page 1 is on sheet 2 back side
        etc.

I asked about this in the Windows NT conference.  Dave Levy tried the same thing 
on an LPS32 and found it worked correctly.  He suggested it might be a problem 
with the print driver.  Can anyone please confirm?  Any patches/workarounds 
available?

Kind regards,

Herta

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
7224.1	need more information	REGENT::LASKO	Tim - Printing Systems Business	`Tue Jun 03 1997 12:30`	5
	Well sure, it could be a driver problem. It could also be an application problem. Please tell me what application you are using and exactly how you are selecting multiple copies and duplex. What drivers do you have installed and are you printing through a server (on the Windows 95 clients) or possibly through an OpenVMS system.
7224.2	application problem indeed	DOOSJE::HERTA	For something fulfilled this hour, loved, or endured	`Tue Jun 03 1997 13:00`	9
	Re. .1: Tim > Well sure, it could be a driver problem. It could also be an > application problem. Looks like you are right. I'm having problems printing from MS Word, but not from Notepad. Thanks, Tim. Herta
7224.3	second thoughts...	REGENT::LASKO	Tim - Printing Systems Business	`Tue Jun 03 1997 13:01`	4
	On second thought, I'm not surprised that it fails the way it does and I'm not convinced about where the problem is yet. On the other hand, it should fail in the same way on the PrintServer 32 so I don't know how Dave Levy got it to succeed.
7224.4	"by design"	DOOSJE::HERTA	For something fulfilled this hour, loved, or endured	`Tue Jun 03 1997 13:28`	10
	Re. .3: Dave Levy said he couldn't reproduce the problem on a LPS32. Neither of us mentioned which application we were using because we did not think about it being an application problem. Based on some info I saw in the ORION::WINWORD conference (topic 851), I checked the technet CD. MS claims it works this way by design. I'd love to hear the designer's arguments ... Herta