Printing a file to 2 printers

[John Sutherland]

Hi,

Is it possible to write a macro that prints the black and white pages of a document to one printer, and the color pages to another printer.

Thanks

 

[JGM]

Hi John,

Yes.

First, you have to have a way to programmatically determine which pages are
B&W and which are in colours... Or get the user to make that decision
through a userform...

Cheers!

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Jean-Guy Marcil
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Hi,

Is it possible to write a macro that prints the black and white pages of a

document to one printer, and the color pages to another printer.

 

[John Sutherland]

Thanks for the reply Jean-Guy.

Any ideas on how to programmatically determine whether a page is black and white or has colour parts. It would be easier if the process was automatic, and not involve the user.

Thanks again.

 

[JGM]

Hi John,

AFAIK, it would be way too cumbersome to have code check for the presence of
colours on each page...
You would have to check for font, paragraph, borders, shapes, tables, etc.
Then, you would have to check each of these objects against a series of
colours... I can't see how it can be done...

I think you have to go the user input way...
Either at print time, or at editing time (whenever the user uses colours,
he/she could click on a custom toolbar button that would set a bookmark ,
then at print time you could scan for those bookmarks and print the
bookmarked pages in colours...)
Unless someone has a devious solution!

Sorry I can't help more than that.
Cheers.
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Jean-Guy Marcil
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Thanks for the reply Jean-Guy.

Any ideas on how to programmatically determine whether a page is black and

white or has colour parts. It would be easier if the process was automatic,
and not involve the user.