Hi Bruno,

I may have a fairly easy solution for you using my Mind's Eye Report Engine. You can programatically place your drawings onto Report Pages within my Report Engine which now supports DUPLEX printing. I have also recently added in support that allows you to INSERT either a Report Page or FRX Reports as well anywhere anytime.

So, one way to process a report and then print it as a duplex would be to set the page size to an A4 in the Report Engine and then use the ADDPICTURE() or ADDFROMCLIPBOARD() Method your CAD drawing onto the First Page. Then APPEND an FRX Report to the Report Engine for that Drawing. Then programmatically add another new A4 page to the Report Engine using the NEWPAGEBYPAPERSIZE() Method and then APPEND another FRX Report into the engine and continuing to do all of this until all of your CAD Drawings and FRX Reports are added into the Report Engine.

All of these appended reports can be printed as ONE Print Job rather than being broken into several print jobs. You could also send them out as a PDF file as well. I am going to be soon adding in support to turn DUPLEX printing On and Off within an entire Report so that some pages may be Duplexed while others are not all within the same report.


We have a VFP application which makes Autocad automation for printing dwg drawings on side A (front) of a A4-format sheet (i.e. 10 drawings).
After the printing, the operator reverses the sheet (i.e. 10 sheets) then, on the back side, the same application prints a VFP report based on a cursor which contains additional information pertaining each drawing.

In order to avoid the additional work of reversing the sheets and, mainly, the possibility of a wrong coupling of printing drawing vs information due to wrong paper feed, our customer bought a laser printer with the DUPLEX device (Epson AL-C900).
Now, with the printer it’ s easy i.e. to print a 3-pages Word document on sheet A (pages #1 and #2) and on sheet B (page #3).

The problem for us is to print our CADdrawing/VFPreport on the same sheet, without the sheet to be ejected.
We posted the question to Epson-Italy technical team, but the answer is that after an application printing (i.e.CAD), the sheet may not be retained inside the printer so as to be used for the next print job.

Now, the question is:
Is there a method to combine the two print jobs so as the printer may interpret them as an unique job and so perform the print-duplex operation (Drawing1+Back1(Sheet#1)+Drawing2+Back2(Sheet #2)…DrawingN+BackN(Sheet #N))?

Or is there another way to reach the goal?