problems printing merge [word x]

[Nate Carnahan]

I am trying to print a relatively small (~750) page mail merge through word
x on mac os x.3. It gets through about 80 records, and then breaks the job
up into dozens of seperate print jobs that foul up the order of my
documents. This doesn't work for me because I must keep the documents in
a specific order, and I don't want to go back and hand sort 750 pages.

I have had no problem in the past printing much larger mail merges, when I
was using os 9.2 and word 98. What can I do to make Word X send the
entire document, in order, to my RIP?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Some guesses...

Make sure you have the latest printer driver for your exact printer, and
that it is configured to use that driver, not "any printer" or "generic"

If your mail merge doesn't use page numbers, and depending on the formatting
of your merge, it might work to do a find & replace after merging, to change
section breaks to next page breaks. Section breaks are the culprit for
similar problems making PDFs, though I haven't heard complaints of it
happening in regular print jobs.

Make sure Word X is updated:
http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/Update.htm
(hit refresh a few times in Safari, or use a different browser)

What's an RIP?

 

[John McGhie]

As Daiya says, merge the thing to a single file, then search/replace the
section breaks into page breaks. That will fix it.

I am trying to print a relatively small (~750) page mail merge through word
x on mac os x.3. It gets through about 80 records, and then breaks the job
up into dozens of seperate print jobs that foul up the order of my
documents. This doesn't work for me because I must keep the documents in
a specific order, and I don't want to go back and hand sort 750 pages.

I have had no problem in the past printing much larger mail merges, when I
was using os 9.2 and word 98. What can I do to make Word X send the
entire document, in order, to my RIP?

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