Can crystal change trays in a single report

[szlamany]

We are being told that crystal cannot change trays mid-print - is that true??

[Hack]

I wasn't aware that there were any report engines that could change trays in the middle of a print job.

If I needed to switch to legal, I always put my legals in a separate print job.

[szlamany]

My report engine switches trays mid-print - that's how we do letterhead for page 1 and plain paper for page 2

I want to know why crystal can't do that - it's easy enough from VB to change the PAPERBIN property as long as you are on a fresh page.

[szlamany]

Is this question really not possible to get an answer to?

[RobDog888]

I think it depends on the printer, not the print job submitted.

I have a HP Laserjet 1020 and it has two 8.5x11 trays. If tray 1 runs out of paper then it automatically pulls paper from tray 2 keeping the print job continuously printing without error.

Is this the type of action you are looking for or is it switching between paper sized trays or ???

[szlamany]

I think it depends on the printer, not the print job submitted.

I have a HP Laserjet 1020 and it has two 8.5x11 trays. If tray 1 runs out of paper then it automatically pulls paper from tray 2 keeping the print job continuously printing without error.

Is this the type of action you are looking for or is it switching between paper sized trays or ???

Not really...

Town hall has beach stickers in tray 1 and lake stickers in tray 2.

Some people buy both.

So it's a single crystal report that needs to print page 1 from tray 1, switch to tray 2 and then print page 2.

I know this is possible with any print driver from VB.

Does crystal have this level of sophistication?

[brucevde]

You could use the PrintOut method. I only have CR version 8.5 so I don't know what is available in other versions.

    
Dim app As CRAXDRT.Application
Dim rep As CRAXDRT.Report
    
Set app = New CRAXDRT.Application
Set rep = app.OpenReport("C:\report1.rpt")
    
rep.PaperSource = crPRBinMiddle
rep.PrintOut False, , , 1, 1
    
rep.PaperSource = crPRBinUpper
rep.PrintOut False, , , 2

[RobDog888]

I dont have the newer versions either but 8.5 standalone and 9.0 in .NET. Havent tried it but I would assume you can use whatever the new method is in CR similarily.