Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing Multiple Copies Problem

Thank you Webmaster,

Yes, that is the way I figured out to do it once it was too late. Had I 
only known that before I tried sending the print job in the first place 
I could have saved myself a ton of time and aggravation!

Don

On 12/15/2011 02:08 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote:
> There has to be a way to do the multiple copies in one print job.
>
> I printed a page using CUPS-PDF, but Export to PDF will do.
>
> Then I went to print it out to an HP color laser printer.  There was a 
> "number of copies" option show.  I wonder it that will make 5 or 10 
> jobs, just printing the same job 5 or 10 times?
>
> Do you have that option for your printers?
> .
> On 12/15/2011 01:58 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
> > Hi :)
> > Wow!  Blimey!  Sounds like a nightmare!
> >
> > Have you had a chance to check to see if there is already a 
> > bug-report about this?
> > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport
> >
> > Regards from
> > Tom :)
> >
> >
> > --- On Thu, 15/12/11, Don C. Myers<donmyers@myersfarm.com>  wrote:
> >
> > From: Don C. Myers<donmyers@myersfarm.com>
> > Subject: [libreoffice-users] Printing Multiple Copies Problem
> > To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> > Date: Thursday, 15 December, 2011, 18:07
> >
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > I'm running LibreOffice (version directly from LibreOffice) 3.4.4 on 
> > Ubuntu 11.10. I tried printing 75 copies of a single sheet with 
> > significant graphics (large file size) on a black and white 
> > Konica-Minolta PagePro 1400w laser printer. I had no idea that 
> > LibreOffice would be sending 75 individual print jobs to the printer 
> > instead of 1 print job with 75 copies. It crashed the printer, and 
> > also the driver after several copies. Then there was the horrendous 
> > mess of getting all of the unprinted jobs deleted.  I was able to use 
> > my inkjet (HP OfficeJet Pro 8000) to finish the printing after the 
> > laser crashed. Once again individual print jobs were sent for each 
> > copy, but the printer did not crash. Once everything was printed, I 
> > had about 10 minutes of icons coming on the screen saying printing 
> > started and printing completed when the printing was all done. The 
> > icons were playing catchup with all of the print jobs. I've tried to 
> > research this. The only way I've
> >   found that you can print a large number of copies is to export the 
> > page to pdf, and then print the pdf. Programs other than LibreOffice 
> > (GEdit, Document Viewer) send 1 job to the printer with multiple 
> > copies. This problem did not exist in OpenOffice a year ago with 
> > whatever was the current version of openoffice on Ubuntu 10.10 back 
> > then when I printed the same job on the same laser printer.
> >
> > Has anyone else had similar problems, or does anyone have any other 
> > solutions? I filed a bug report in bug 33696 on Freedesktop.org. It 
> > may not have been the best place for it since that was a bug report 
> > for a 3.3x version and for Windows.
> >
> > Don

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