>Simply printing a record
>500 times from Filemaker by either creating 500 records or printing in a
>loop would cause the printer to think that each page was a separate job.
Duplicating the record 500 times, and then printing the found set SHOULD
make your printer think it is 1 500 record job, not 500 1 record jobs
(FileMaker, and thus your printer, can't tell the difference between 1
record duplicated 500 times, and 500 different records. So to FMP, all
you are doing is printing a found set of 500 different records... no
different then any other print job.)
>There could be something like 200-300 records to be printed . The number of
>copies of each record could range between 10 and 500.
This is exactly the kind of scenerio I knew would break my solution (in
fact, it HAS broken it for me in the past).
I have this nagging feeling that somewhere I saw a FMP plugin that will
give you control over the print dialog. Unfortunatly, I just did a quick
search of FileMaker's plugin database, and didn't find it. Maybe someone
else will remember if one exists, and what the name is.
-chris
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