Hi All,

I want to know how the applications will handle collating the print jobs.

I have a printer driver that supports multiple copies and collate. Now when
the print job given when collate is set(and copies =2) from driver's property
sheets and not through application's print dialog box, my expected output is
collated print job.
But i am getting,
1) uncollated printouts. [From ms-word application]
2) Collated printputs. [From ms-excel application]

Is there any difference in the way Ms-excel and Ms-word handles collate?

How to override application's collate?

Thanks

"Ken" <Ken@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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MS-Word may detect "driver can handle collation", so it does not try to do
so manually, but the merge-devmode process is not handled properly in your
driver, so the pages come out uncollated.

MS-Excel may not try to detect this capability and instead manually collates
the pages before sending.


There is a "merging" process where the app gets the driver capabilities --
the DEVMODE -- then uses their own dialog box to change them, then notifies
the driver of the new "requested" capabilities with a modified DEVMODE. See
the Remarks in DocumentProperties about a 2- or 3-step process of getting
and setting DEVMODE before calling CreateDC.