Larry,

Hmm.. Well, that's not a bad idea actually. What we have are some technicians who will be placed in the offices of our clients. They will be printing out CMAs (Comparable Market Analysis - Real Estate related stuff) for these clients. Each may be a different combination of 'pieces', assembled in order as each realtor/agent wishes, though most don't bother. Each page can be wildly different than the prior (as mentioned before).

I'm actually leaning towards PDF files concatenated via the old COPY + /B stuff. However Craig Berntson has suggested that Crystal Reports can do what I want. Since he's local and we're due for a Wednesday chicken taco lunch I'm going to discuss it with him tomorrow...

Thanks for the ideas though!

Now if I could only figure out the difference between a BO and a DS... <g>




>Doug,
>How about an out-of-process COM server to handle the print functionality? Or create a client/server print server running elsewhere?
>
>Printing huge jobs is one of those times when you don't want to do it yourself. Send the job to something else and let its power add to your own.
>
>>Hi All,
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>>Does anyone know of an easy way to print multiple reports, all with different layouts, information, etc to files then easily concatenate them together for one monster print job? We have an almost infinite number of combinations of data and reports. For convenience sake we naturally have broken these into their component parts, printing each as needed. This suits all needs except the printing speed issue. (I want my cake and to eat it too.. <g>)
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>>We are dealing with a speed issue that results from multiple color print outs, each being a separate print job. We have been informaed that if we could concatenate all these teports into one file that this would markedly speed up the printing time.
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>>I know how to do the COPY /B + stuff but was wondering if anyone has ever tackled this beast and had a better method developed? I'm kind of wondering if there is a WSH approach I don't know of or some other low-level solution.
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>>The printer is one of the Xerox DocuColor 12's.
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>>Any suggestions gratefully appreciated...
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>>Thanks!!