RE: Printing two copies of report

Because it needs to be scanned after the customer signs it to acknowledge 
receipt of the goods, and there's a legal requirement that any other 
notations or markings on the document are kept & scanned.

...Neil




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Neil,

So You're taking an electronic document, printing it out and then scanning 
it back into electronic form?

WTF?

Have you considered converting from *AFPDS to PDF or even TIFF?  The 
document storage systems I've seen had ways to load from the spool file 
directly.

HTH,

Charles Wilt
iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Neil Palmer/DPS
> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 11:26 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Printing two copies of report
> 
> 
> Is there an easy way to print two copies of a report, one 
> from drawer 1 
> and one from drawer 2) from one output queue entry?
> 
> 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. 
> 
> Is this something that could be done with Form Definition objects?
> (One more complication - it's an IBM 1145 printing with IPDS attach).
> 
> ...Neil