Printing Question

[Chris Kelleher]

We converted from Symix 4.0 to Syteline 3.5 yesterday. For the most part things
went well, but I do have a couple of questions about printing.

1. When a check run is done, the preliminary report is run first then the
checks are printed. How do you send these two functions to different printers?

2. Is there a way for a users to always specify the printer for a particular
reports without having to "print setup" for each report that is output to
something other than the default printer?

Thanks!

 

[Chris Kelleher]

We have SyteLine 4.00.02 running on NT, using Novell as our print server.
This is what we found. Symix says they are working on improving this -
maybe in V5? If anyone knows of a better way to handle this - I would be
happy to hear about it.

First, set up in SyteLine a default of User Name = * ; Process = * Printer
= PRINTER. That will send the reports to each user's default windows
printer, and takes care of MOST reports. If you want them to print
condensed; put the Start String for your printers.
- For HP printers it's ~027&k2S.
- For OkiData printers; to print 10CPI; Draft (not double strike); put
~018 as a start string.

For the exeptions:

If you have a NT Client you can enter the full path name as the printer
default. To see the printer name; Start; Settings; Printers; right click
on the printer; Properties; Ports. It should be \\SERVER\PRINTER. That's
what you would put in SyteLine as the printer default.

If you have a Windows 95/98 Client, your default PRINTER will be where the
reports go. The user can change the printer each time they print a report
- but this is a pain. If you want another default printer set up, you have
to "capture" a port.
- When you "Add Printer" ; check the button "Print MS-DOS files"
- Capture a printer port of LPT1; LPT2 and LPT3 (maybe more...)
- After completing the "Add Printer" wizard; right-click on the printer
and select Properties.
- Change the port to the full path name of LPT1:\\SERVER\PRINTER (it will
be listed)

This will ONLY work for the client you set up the printers on - you have to
re-do it for each client that prints on more than one printer.

I got this information from Symix support - so they may have a "how to"
document on it now, that may be better than my instructions.