Re: Reports 3.0.5 : Select Printer + PaperTray

From: Tuomas Hosia <hosia_at_lut.fi>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 12:26:52 GMT
Message-ID: <39d48918.22140145_at_news.lut.fi>


"S van Hoof" <stephan_at_hoof.nl> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Question concerning printers. Our customers would like to have a possibility
>to select a printer and paper-tray for their report. I know one can select a
>printer via the 'File-Print' way, but are their other possiblities?
>
>Example:
>Urgent cases should be printed on yellow paper (tray 2), normal cases on
>white paper (tray 1).

You could use two printer queues and select right one programmatically before printing or ask it from user.

It's not a good solution, but as far as I know, there's no way to set print parameters within pl/sql / Reports (= tray, halftone, resolution etc. ).

Tuomas

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