Printing With Publisher

[Steven Rossi]

Hello Everyone,

My question is related to mail merge printing using
Publisher. Can someone tell me why Publisher when it
sends a mail merged job to the print queue, it sends it
in groups of ten jobs per queue? Is this a print settings
in the application and if so how do i change it so the
job is sent as one job in the queue like when your using
Microsoft Word to print a mail merge. Any suggestions or
comments please! Thanks

 

[Brian Kvalheim - [MSFT MVP]]

Hi Steven Rossi ([email protected]),
in the newsgroups
you posted:

|| My question is related to mail merge printing using
|| Publisher. Can someone tell me why Publisher when it
|| sends a mail merged job to the print queue, it sends it
|| in groups of ten jobs per queue? Is this a print settings
|| in the application and if so how do i change it so the
|| job is sent as one job in the queue like when your using
|| Microsoft Word to print a mail merge. Any suggestions or
|| comments please! Thanks

I don't remember the settings, but this is controlled in the registry. I
believe Ed has the unofficial answer to this.
--
Brian Kvalheim
Microsoft Publisher MVP
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[°°MS-Publisher°°]

Changing it to go as one job will cause it to crash.
Generally twenty is about the limit.

 

[Ed Bennett]

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My question is related to mail merge printing using
Publisher. Can someone tell me why Publisher when it
sends a mail merged job to the print queue, it sends it
in groups of ten jobs per queue?

The Registry Fix (courtesy of KATMA) alters this.

Open registry using regedit.exe

Go to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Publisher\Printing

(11.0 is for Publisher 2003. 10.0 would be Publisher 2002, etc)


Create new "string value" called:
NumberOfRecordsPerBatch

Double click and set a value for your batch size (0, or 99999, in this
case).

 

[marge]

Hi,
I am having the same problem and hope you found a
solution. I have to print hundreds of sheets of
postcards with 4 post cards per sheet. So far this has
been impractical with Publisher which ony prints 2 sheets
at a time.

I saw the suggestions to your question and am wondering:
Did you try changing the registry as suggested by Ed?
Did it crash as suggested by someone else?

I have Publisher 2000, so I can not print merge to a new
document, but I understand that Publisher 2003 provides
the capability of print merging to a new document. Did
you try this? Does it work? Or did you find another way
or another application that works better for this purpose?

Thanks
Marge

 

[Mary Sauer]

You can print merge to a new document with your data.
The page setup is straightforward, special size, postcard, landscape. When you go to
print, click page options and change the margin settings to show four cards if
Publisher has not done it automatically. Of course this depends on the size of the
card.
I believe the registry fix is stable. Re-start your computer after you do the fix.

 

[Marge Tendler]

Thanks for responding, Don.
To clarify, I am not having a problem printing 4 cards on
one sheet, I am having a problem printing more than 2
sheets at a time using Publisher 2000 mail merge. I have
no problem printing 20 to 40 sheets at a time with mail
merge if I print 1 postcard per sheet,however.

Marge

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your reply, Mary.
I have Publisher 2000 so I can not merge to a new
document. I looked at the information for Publisher 2003
and see that I can print merge to a new document with it,
but it was not clear that I could then print 4 postcards
per page. Thanks for confirming that.

I will try regedit first. Thanks!

-----Original Message-----
You can print merge to a new document with your data.
The page setup is straightforward, special size,

postcard, landscape. When you go to

 

[Ed Bennett]

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I will try regedit first.

I sincerely doubt that the regedit fix will fix this issue.

Publisher by default breaks after each 10 documents in a print merge,
creating a separate print file for each batch of 10. The registry fix
changes this to whatever you want it to be. Nothing to do with multiple
copies per page.

 

[Marge]

Thanks for your reply, Ed.
I tried changing regedit before I saw your reply. It did
not change the number of records per batch as I thought
it would.

(By the way, I am not trying to print multiple copies of
anything.) I m printing 4 postcards each with a
different address on one sheet of paper. Publisher is
breaking after each 8 post cards (2 full sheets). I
changed the regedit entry to 20, rebooted and ran the
print merge again. Same results as before (8 postcards
on 2 full sheets in each batch).

Then I changed the regedit entry to 99999, rebooted and
ran the print merge again. Same results as before (8
postcards on 2 full sheets in each batch).

I would ideally like each "batch" to contain 40 to 80
records/postcards which would be 20 to 40 sheets. If I
understood your reponse correctly, the regedit fix would
do it. But I am still having no luck. Any further
enlightenment you can provide would be appreciated.
Thanks!

 

[Ed Bennett]

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I would ideally like each "batch" to contain 40 to 80
records/postcards which would be 20 to 40 sheets. If I
understood your reponse correctly, the regedit fix would
do it. But I am still having no luck. Any further
enlightenment you can provide would be appreciated.

Ah, I see where you're coming from now
Misread your other posts, sorry

The registry fix should fix this - make sure you are changing the right
registry keys (9.0 I think was 2000, 10.0 is 2002, and 11.0 is 2003)

 

[Marge]

Thanks for teh follow-up, Ed.

Thanks to your prior instructions regarding the registry
fix, I did use registry key 9.0 for 2000.

I gave up on that approach and redid my publication to
have be an 8.5x11 sheet of paper with 4 postcards onit.
I then redid my Excel data file to have four contacts,
names and addresses in each record. Then when I mail
merge 1 record, I get 4 postcards on 1 piece of paper.
And Oddly enough, Publisher will print 10 pages (40
postcards) at a time instead of 2 pages with 8 postcards.

Unfortunately, now my Epson CX 5200 printer is acting up
and I can't print any more on this postcard stock!

 

[Steven Rossi]

Ed,

Sorry it took me so long to respond to this. I got so
sidetracked with other work. Wow, I have been sidetracked
for a month? Hehe. Anyways, thanks a great deal for your
knowledge and help!

Steve