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We are currently sending out letters that print:
- Letter on letter-head (customized for recipient)
- Instructions on regular paper (customized for recipient)
These letters are all sent automatically in a PDF, so the PDF pages look something like:
- Receipt 1's Letter
- Receipt 1's Instructions
- Receipt 2's Letter
- Receipt 2's Instructions
- etc...
We are sending these out daily (and will usually send to roughly 20+ recipients) and I would like to know if there is a way to print the Letters and the Instructions to separate feeds on a printer. It might be okay in the long run to continue printing 'odd/even' pages to separate feeds, but it's possible that more pages will be added, killing the odd/even method. That and I want to make this as simple and fast as possible for those will be doing the actual printing.
Potential Solution:
I found this post: Printing: Different pages from different feeds (pdf). This is similar to the solution I need, but uses shell scripts. I am going to attempt to see if I can learn batch files and get them to do something to the shell script. But this needs to be something a person with enough-to-get-by computer-knowledge could use (maybe there is a program that does something similar?).
If anyone has
- a better solution (some known software perhaps)
- a batch file one is willing to share
- some info on printing from different feeds using batch files
- other useful information
it would be appreciated to have/hear.
search for Ricoh Print&Share and also tutorial videos. Not that hard to do with P&S. – juFo – 2016-06-29T08:06:29.340
1FYI, I don't think you'll be able to port the linux solution to Windows, as I don't know of any way to print from the command line and specify a feed/tray. I researched this a bit, but neither the native
print.exe
, nor any of the PDF utilities I looked at support a tray option from the command line. – ernie – 2013-03-01T17:50:06.737Hm, I'll have to look into it more then. Thanks for the info! – Phillip – 2013-03-05T14:51:51.250