RE: Printing last page first

[Buck Calabro <mcalabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

They don't want the last customer first, they want the
last-page-of-each-customer first.  We can't do a straight CPYSPLF because
the bills use AFP.  The first page is the bill summary (phone bills) and is
on special perforated letterhead, printed one side only.  The remaining
pages are the long distance charges, and print two-sided on plain paper from
another drawer.  These bills print company logos, barcodes, boxes, etc.
using AFP.  Volume is something on the order of 10-15 thousand pages per
billing cycle.  We've asked them to buy a new stuffer; it's under
consideration.

Here's the order they want things in:

Cust 1, page 5/4 (duplex, plain paper)
Cust 1, page 3/2 (duplex, plain paper)
Cust 1, page 1 (simplex, letterhead drawer)

Cust 2, page 4/3 (duplex, plain)
Cust 2, page 2/blank (duplex, plain)
Cust 2, page 1 (simplex, letterhead)

Being duplex, we need to ensure that we always have an even number of duplex
pages because 2 "logical" pages fit on a single sheet of paper, and we can't
put the first page (the letterhead) on the back of the plain paper.

Buck
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Bale 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 5:11 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Printing last page first
> 
> >>We have a client who wants their bills printed in reverse order; that
> is,
> page 10, then page 9, then 8 and so on.  Has anybody ever encountered
> this?
> A possible "gotcha" is that the bills are duplex.  The customer tells us
> that their old printer (vendor unknown) had no trouble with this.  The
> reason they want this is because they have an old postal inserting machine
> that requires the bills to be in reverse order.<<
> 
> Buck, at the risk of sounding too obvious here, why not just reverse the
> sort
> order of the primary input that is used to produce the bills?  If it's
> more
> complicated than that (isn't it always?), then it sounds like you'd have
> to
> CpySplF the thing (using CtlChar(*FCFC)) and use an RPG program to
> (re-)write
> out the spool file so that last page is output first.
> 
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