Triplicate Orders

[Tom Scholis]

RE: Triplicate Orders

if you look at labor and specialty paper costs, perhaps you client might like this compromise; have the report print a few carefully placed colored bars. While you could probably get a way with one report and conditional objects, it might be easier to just copy the report and change the bars to the colors you need on each copy. good luck.

[Carol A Graham]

RE: Triplicate Orders

Hi Dorothy

There is actually 2 and 3 colored paper that is
sold for just this purpose. I know that Xerox makes
3 colors (white-canary yellow-pink). It's more
expensive, but would save time.

Carol

[Mike Konoff]

RE: Triplicate Orders

I once suggested to Selwyn that a future version of A5 have a "copies" feature for the purpose of printing & identifying multiple "copies" to lasers to allow a somewhat easier approach to getting away from printing to mulitpart carbon/carbonless paper.

Suggestion was to choose number of "copies" of a report. All reports would default to one copy. If you chose "3" copies then you could fill in copy 1 for "Office", copy 2 for "customer", copy 3 for "shipping"...or whatever in the report setup.

Then place the "copies" display field at the top, bottome, or wherever on your report and one report would print for each copy you specify and the "copies" field would list the information you chose to display in your setup for copy 1, copy 2, & copy 3.

Sometimes I guess I dream too much.

Mike

[Dorothy]

RE: Triplicate Orders

Pat,
One person must be in charge of the printing and that person also delivers the wo to the separate departments. So while your idea is a good one, it isn't a match for these folks.

Thanks for your thoughts on this.

Dorothy

[Dorothy]

RE: Triplicate Orders

Mike,

Keep dreaming. This is just what I need.

I suspect they will print it in batch format - 1st page; then change to yellow paper and print again; then change to pink paper and print again. Each time they will be prompted to change the paper and actually will print a slightly different version of the wo with a footer saying "Office Copy", "Warehouse Copy", "Field Copy".

Will report back when I get it to work and will describe what hoops I had to jump through.

Thanks for all your input. I do appreciate knowing you are all sharing your thoughts about the situation.

Dorothy

[Mike Konoff]

RE: Triplicate Orders

Dorothy,

the following link boast of blank carbonless multipart forms for laser printers & copy machines.

http://www.lowers.com/ncr/Default.htm

Looks interesting.

Mike

[Dorothy]

RE: Triplicate Orders

Mike,
Thanks for the lead. It does look interesting enough for me to call them in the AM. Will report back here.

Dorothy

[Tom Patten]

RE: Triplicate Orders

I haven't read all the replies but...(never let the facts get in the way)..,

Couldn't you select to have the printer properties show prior to printing in the report. Then, using the printers properties, set the number of copies and paper bins.

Tom

[Thomas Henkel]

RE: Triplicate Orders

Dorothy,

We do just what you are suggesting. We have an invoicing system that prints an invoice on "blue" paper, and a worksheet on "white". I print all of the invoices first after prompting for blue paper, then prompt for a paper change to print the worksheets. Our users print about 300 invoices per month in this fashion, and it seems to suit them just fine.

Your application is actually easier in that your users won't need to colate the copies, just distribute. I would make 3 duplicate copies of the report with a footer specifying location on each.

Tom

[Steve Wood]

Re: Triplicate Orders

This is an old post, but in case someone is trying to figure out how to print, for example, 4 copies of a form, with each page listing a different phrase such as To Controller, To Accounting, etc.).

Create a table named Pages with a single character field. Enter one record for each "page" you want to output with the phrase you want to appear on that page.

Create a Set with the Pages table as the master. Relate the table that contains your data on an equasion such as "A" = "A". Create your report, put everything in the Detail section, no Header or Footer. Include the field from the Pages table.

If you have four records in the Pages table, you will get four pages output, each with the phrase from the Pages table.

I assume by now no one is fooling with the multi colored paper. That's so 1999.