Black Hole
May contain traces of nut
I wonder if anyone has relevant experience to help me out here?
Each month I have a job to run off a club newsletter, which amounts to 5 A4 pages double-sided, 120-off. The printer I use for this has a paper tray that takes just over 100 sheets, and it can do double-sided printing, so I've worked out that the most efficient way to run the print job is in batches of 20 copies with collated printing (I can set it off and go do something else for 40 minutes before I have to refill the paper tray).
That's six batches of prints, each identical, that need firing off from the word processor that has the original loaded up.
I figured I could just run the print process once, and select the "print to file" option, then copy that file to the print queue six times. Sure enough, I get a .prn file (which is a hell of a lot bigger than the print batch spools to the print queue directly)... but then I can't figure out what to do with it.
Googling I see some command line options for sending a .prn file to a port, but this is a WiFi connected printer. I tried dragging and dropping the file onto the printer's queue, but after a lot of thinking the PC came up with "this operation needs the printer to be the default printer to complete this operation" (or words to that effect), which I didn't want. When I tried to do the same thing again, thinking it wouldn't do any harm to make it the default printer (why would it need to do that???), the operation bombed out anyway. It all seems rather a mess, and rather than persist with it any further I just went back to setting up the print batch fresh each time from the WP.
If anybody knows how to crack this I would love to hear. Vague suggestions not needed (I can google just the same as you).
Win 7.
Each month I have a job to run off a club newsletter, which amounts to 5 A4 pages double-sided, 120-off. The printer I use for this has a paper tray that takes just over 100 sheets, and it can do double-sided printing, so I've worked out that the most efficient way to run the print job is in batches of 20 copies with collated printing (I can set it off and go do something else for 40 minutes before I have to refill the paper tray).
That's six batches of prints, each identical, that need firing off from the word processor that has the original loaded up.
I figured I could just run the print process once, and select the "print to file" option, then copy that file to the print queue six times. Sure enough, I get a .prn file (which is a hell of a lot bigger than the print batch spools to the print queue directly)... but then I can't figure out what to do with it.
Googling I see some command line options for sending a .prn file to a port, but this is a WiFi connected printer. I tried dragging and dropping the file onto the printer's queue, but after a lot of thinking the PC came up with "this operation needs the printer to be the default printer to complete this operation" (or words to that effect), which I didn't want. When I tried to do the same thing again, thinking it wouldn't do any harm to make it the default printer (why would it need to do that???), the operation bombed out anyway. It all seems rather a mess, and rather than persist with it any further I just went back to setting up the print batch fresh each time from the WP.
If anybody knows how to crack this I would love to hear. Vague suggestions not needed (I can google just the same as you).
Win 7.