Re: Printing two copies of report

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Neil Palmer/DPS wrote:

> Idea is one copy of invoice will be scanned into an imaging system and
> become a legal document, need to make sure they are identical, hence not
> wanting to do two passes of print program (or two printer files in one
> program).
>
> One more complication, one copy will need "SHIPING COPY" at the bottom,
> and the other "CUSTOMER COPY", so either that needs to be printed
> differently on each copy (therefore we'd HAVE to have two spool files
> anyway) or when printing two copies on ewould have drawer 1 and one
> overlay and the other drawer 2 and a different overlay.

You can do this with only one "print file" if you use postscript. 
Obviously, using postscript means no print file at.  But with postscript 
you can generate only one output file, and then run a post-processor on it 
that will put the "SHIPPING COPY" and "CUSTOMER COPY" on the bottom.  You 
could even do it as a watermark.  Additionally, postscript converts to pdf 
splendidly.  Plus most laser printers do postscript natively but ipds is 
always an additional cost.

I've done a bunch of postscript programming lately.  I've found the 
following page to be very helpful:

http://www.cs.indiana.edu/docproject/programming/postscript/postscript.html

James Rich

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