Pulling from multiple paper trays

[Denzil]

Hi all,

I'm new to publisher, and I'm trying to figure out how to grab paper
from more than one tray. I have about 10 pages, and want some of them
printed on normal paper, and some of them printing on some harder card
stock. How can I tell publisher which paper to use for which page? I
can only seem to set the paper tray for the entire publication.

Thanks,
Denzil

 

[JoAnn Paules]

Either create multiple documents, each using a particular tray, or instead
of telling it to print all of the pages, print the pages you want for Tray 1
and then run another print batch for Tray 2.

 

[Mary Sauer]

Does you printer setup have a check-off for a different first page? Is there a
default tray? In my printer if I put cardstock in tray one, it will print that page
first then the rest of the run from tray two.

 

[Denzil]

Either create multiple documents, each using a particular tray, or instead
of telling it to print all of the pages, print the pages you want for Tray 1
and then run another print batch for Tray 2.

Thanks for the idea, but we would really like to do it all in one
pass. I've squeezed the number of merge fields down to just below the
256 limit, and have a certain sequence of normal paper, card stock for
postcards, and a paper with 10 business cards on it. We aim to print
about 500 packages a day. We would rather not spend the time stacking
and sorting the papers and making sure each one gets assembled with
the correct pieces.

I'm trying to figure out if Word will do it, but we are also merging
in images, and I don't think that can be done with Word.

Does anyone know if there is a more hardcore publishing program than
Publisher that can handle more than 256 merge fields and pull from
different trays within the same document? Doesn't seem like it would
be so hard?

Thanks for the help,
Denzil

 

[Denzil]

Does you printer setup have a check-off for a different first page? Is there a
default tray? In my printer if I put cardstock in tray one, it will print that page
first then the rest of the run from tray two.

I don't see anything like that. Is it a matter of my print driver not
giving Publisher the option do you think? Or Publisher just doesn't
allow for specifying different trays?

Thanks,
Denzil

 

[Mary Sauer]

What model is your printer?

 

[Denzil]

What model is your printer?

It's a CLC 1000, made by Canon. We are using a Colorpass Z90 as a
controller. We are printing from a Win XP box using Publisher 2003.

Thanks,
Denzil

 

[Denzil]

What model is your printer?

Oops, it's a CLC 3100. We have a 1000 as well, but that's not the one we are using.

Denzil

 

[Mary Sauer]

I cannot find one document on any Canon site that mentions your printer except for a
review on the Canada Canon Corporate site. Does your manual give any information?

 

[Denzil]

I cannot find one document on any Canon site that mentions your printer except for a
review on the Canada Canon Corporate site. Does your manual give any information?

No, I didn't see anything in there about pulling from different trays
for the same job.

And yes, it is very frustrating that I can't find any information
online anywhere, and the techs that came out to set it up didn't seem
to know anything about it either. The manual for the CLC 1000 is
copyrighted in 1996, and the 3100 probably came out a few years later?
That's not too long ago, and it almost seems that all traces of this
copier was purposely purged from memory! It's not like the thing came
out in the 80's or 70's.

The only thing I found was relating to the controller:

http://www.canon.com.au/products/copiers/controllers/colorpassz90.html

But anyway, do you think it has something to do with the printer
itself not being able to pull from multiple trays? I would guess that
it's more a function of software like MS Word or Publisher?

Do you think that I'll have to do some kind of programming? Maybe
have publisher create a postscript file, directly manipulate it
somehow to point to different trays, then send that file to the
printer?

Thanks for your help Mary,
Denzil

 

[Mary Sauer]

Dell sells toner for this printer, did you buy it from Dell?

 

[Denzil]

Dell sells toner for this printer, did you buy it from Dell?

I don't know where we got the toner from. Why? We bought the copier off ebay.

Denzil

 

[Mary Sauer]

Dell usually sells toner for products they originally sell. It is curious they offer
toner for this printer, so the thought comes to mind they may have sold it in the
first place. One has to go through passwords and stuff to get into some of their
support documents.
This is a mystery printer, you cannot imagine how many web pages I have gone through
trying to find any kind of information.

I found this site that has a Colorpass manual, it has many CLC manuals but not 3100
http://www.user-service-manuals.com/get.htm
You have to donate to a human rights defense fund...

 

[denzilphp]

Dell usually sells toner for products they originally sell. It is curious they offer
toner for this printer, so the thought comes to mind they may have sold it in the
first place. One has to go through passwords and stuff to get into some of their
support documents.
This is a mystery printer, you cannot imagine how many web pages I have gone through
trying to find any kind of information.

I found this site that has a Colorpass manual, it has many CLC manuals but not 3100
http://www.user-service-manuals.com/get.htm
You have to donate to a human rights defense fund...

I can sort of imagine how many pages you searched through because I
spent a lot of time myself trying to find information on this stupid
thing ).

I did find a macro for Excel called MultiTrayPrint or something like
that that allows for printing different parts of the spreadsheet from
different trays. Maybe I need to write a similar macro for Publisher?

And, that site you found cracks me up. Is this what we need to do to
get a printer that is only 5-8 years old? Just blows my mind that this
is so difficult.

Anyway, thanks for your help. If I figure it out, I'll come back and
detail my solution here.

Denzil