RE: Back side overlays

FWIW, for our tax bills, we print the back page first and then use that stock to print the front separately.
Tax bills are only once a year and ymmv especially if you need to print the forms more often
you would need to keep that stock with the back page already printed in a printer drawer
and then use OVRPRTF to say where to get the paper stock.

hth,

Dave B

"Wilt, Charles" <WiltC@xxxxxxxxxx> 01/11/08 4:02 PM >>>

In other words,

If you've got a dummy record format with the ENDPAGE keyword, write it twice to give you page 1
followed by a blank page.

Charles

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of DeLong, Eric
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 3:46 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Back side overlays

I think there must be two pages generated (text on front, blanks on back),
the printer must have a duplexer, the prtf must support two-sided print
options, etc. If you do not generate page two, the duplex print logic
won't ever kick in...

Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Mike
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 2:42 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Back side overlays


Could you print it "backwards"? Print the overlay on the "front" and the
text on the "back"? On second thought, I don't remember if you could do an
overlay on just one page of a spool file, I don't believe you can.

On Jan 11, 2008 2:28 PM, Smith, Mike <Mike_Smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am trying to replace a preprinted form. Basically the form is blank
on the front side and a form on the backside.

When a spool file is created, data is printed on the (blank) front side
and nothing on the back(the back is used by people in the field).
Each spool file is 1 page.

So I created an overlay and I can get it to print when doing a front
overlay, but I cannot get it to print as a back overlay.
I think I have tried every combination of duplex, back overlay, back
overlay with *constant.

Any ideas how to handle this?

Thanks


Michael Smith