Publisher 5 - some support would be nice

[marklockett]

Hi

We are having problems with printing multiple copies of a document.

with the old publisher 4, it would send 1 copy of the page to print.

now it treats each print of the page as a seperate print job, so if you print 100 copies of a page, it sends it 100 times.

as a result printing multiple copies of a large document takes forever...

any suggestions?

thanks

[marklockett]

is there any chance of getting some support from greenstreet?????

[Bart]

Sorry for the delay in replying.

Whether Publisher sends 1 document and gets the printer to do "n" copies, or whether it sends n copies of the document depends on various print settings and also the printer itself.

- Only some printers support uncollation (i.e. n copies of page 1 followed by n copies of page 2, followed by...), so check if you have the "Collate" box ticked, unless you really want an uncollated printing.

- There are certain document types which don't allow the printer to do straight copies.

- If you are doing a mail-merge in you document then it will send each copy separately. We were looking at making Publisher a bit cleaver with this so it could work out if it was a simple mail merge where it could optimise if you were printing say 3 copies of the letter to Joe Bloggs.

- There are a few printers which don't support copies

[marklockett]

publisher 4 used to work fine. my printer is only a few months old. the only way i can now do a large number of copies is to turn the document into a pdf first then use adobe to print. otherwise it takes too long, today i had to print 2000 letterheads, it send 2000 pages, before it used to send only the one.

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