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August 2000, Week 2

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Damian Sobieralski <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 11 Aug 2000 10:12:22 -0400
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  At the start of this year we found the documentation for setting up network printing (ala npconfig).  This works great except for one problem.  We (I/S here) are trying to get our users off of line printing for high volume 8.5/11 printing.  However, I notice that if we send a one page job to the spool (and say ask for 4 copies).... well looking on the printer's LCD panel it gets the job, prints the 1st copy...then seems to wait processes this job AGAIN and prints the second copy (which is copy #2). It does this for all 4 COPIES.   We had a user time (*sigh* the laser printer vs the lineprinter):

 1- 4 ply line printer page = 15 secs
 4 laser copies total 32 secs.

  Is there a way to tell the HP to send one job to the printer and to instruct the PRINTER to copy this 4 times (the latency happens between the pages as it processes the job)?  Perhaps an ENV file code or even a NPCONFIG item?
BTW- these are all contemporary HP printers with Jetdirect.

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