RE: ostensibly identical spool files (Long) -- MIDRANGE-L

Does you original PRTF specify font or page margins that may be different in
the copied SPLF. Have you compared the spool file attributes to see if there
are differences?  Use WRKSPLFA OUTPUT(*PRINT) on both splfs and compare the
reports.

Eric DeLong
Sally Beauty Company
MIS-Sr. Programmer/Analyst
940-898-7863 or ext. 1863



-----Original Message-----
From: MBarton@pink.co.uk [mailto:MBarton@pink.co.uk]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 9:43 AM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: ostensibly identical spool files (Long)





>>MBarton@pink.co.uk wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>      I have come across a problem which has exhausted all my
>> attempts to solve or come up with a plausible explanantion.
>>
>> I have an external printer file (Invoices) to which I have attached
>> an overlay. This goes to an HP4050 laser printer which works great.
>>

>I suspect your copying process is losing some of the control
>attributes... The other possibility is that you are using a
>"different" printer to receive the second "copy" and it is
>"slightly" different in setup.
>
>To do what you attempting, I would simply add another print
>file to the print program and have the second version directed
>to the "other" printer. Sounds like you are going around the
>world to accomplish what you are doing.

Pat
     thanks for your thoughts.

The printer is the same one.
Agreed, I could add another print file to the program but, we have
some spool archive software which works best on normal (SCS)
spools hence my desire to keep a 'normal' version.

Comparing the 2 spools, they are pretty much identical.
It must be something hidden away which I am missing.

Mike



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