Anyone here support Solicitors or work with them?

[Phal]

We support one firm and they have a strange contraption of an application which they use to print to different trays.


Basically they have a bespoke application which lets them choose paper types to print to easily which I guess is important for a Solicitors firm. The only trouble is that this strange arrangement of macros is that its prone to doing its own thing and not working as it should. It also means that we cant update drivers because if we do this it messes with the macro It was designed years ago so Im thinking there must be something better by now!


What Im asking is... Does anyone know of a tool/app which does this? A tool which lets you print to predetermined trays so that it comes out on different paper types?

 

[iaind]

Erm..file - page setup?

We've got a pretty basic macro set up on a shared common folder so the buttons appear in the toolbar - one "letter" button which loads a standard template and populates the contact details from AD and a letter print button which prints on letterhead..simple stuff really

 

[Phal]

Yeah but if you print a lot of stuff and its all required to be on different paper... going into print setup everytime soon gets old and before you know it someones rampaging through the office murdering people with a shotgun!


Maybe Im exagerating slightly but you get the idea!


There must be an easier way of saving preset paper/tray setups >:|

 

[kefkef]

Wouldn't you be able to set this up on the printer itself? If it receives a print command for letter then tray 1, letter legal then tray 2, A4 then tray 3 and envelope to the MPF? Then when they print all they need to do is select the correct paper size in the printer driver?

Either that, or replace all the printers in the place with a set of new devices and get Canon/Agfa/Brother etc to sort this out for you?

 

[iaind]

Print setup is saved per session, page setup is saved within the document

You specify on the printer what sort of paper is in each tray (letterhead, plain, preprinted etc etc) and then each document can have the paper it is designed to be printed on saved within it.

 

[BoomAM]

Make some templates that default to specific sizes in word, and tell them "if your doing this use this template, doing that, use that template, ect;"

 

[Mikoyan]

yes work in a firm that supports solicitors...and I feel your pain macros are a bloody pain in the ass!

 

[Phal]

I know they have templates already :/ But I didnt realise that page setup was per document.

Ill have to look into this a bit more... Im sure theres a reason why they have this crazy macro arrangement.

Its just so so annoying because the slightest change to the driver or printer settings screws stuff up lol

 

[iaind]

I know they have templates already :/ But I didnt realise that page setup was per document.

Ill have to look into this a bit more... Im sure theres a reason why they have this crazy macro arrangement.

Its just so so annoying because the slightest change to the driver or printer settings screws stuff up lol

Page setup is, print setup isnt.

Its probably just down to ignorance on some predecessors part...

Even if it wasnt, it's dead easy to write a macro to print to a particular paper type and will have no bearing on drivers

 

[Phal]

Page setup is, print setup isnt.

Its probably just down to ignorance on some predecessors part...

Even if it wasnt, it's dead easy to write a macro to print to a particular paper type and will have no bearing on drivers

Yeah, it should be fairly simple which is what makes me think there must be more to their macros :\ Maybe it does some kind of mail merge and sticks data in there too.

Guess I wont know till I look into it a bit more. Ive looked at the damn things loads of times but Ive never looked at what they actually do lol :| I just end up spending hours trying to get the damn macros to use the right trays.

 

[kippermitten]

We support one firm and they have a strange contraption of an application which they use to print to different trays.


Basically they have a bespoke application which lets them choose paper types to print to easily which I guess is important for a Solicitors firm. The only trouble is that this strange arrangement of macros is that its prone to doing its own thing and not working as it should. It also means that we cant update drivers because if we do this it messes with the macro It was designed years ago so Im thinking there must be something better by now!


What Im asking is... Does anyone know of a tool/app which does this? A tool which lets you print to predetermined trays so that it comes out on different paper types?

Look up something called Thin Print - the company I work for use it quite sucessfully. http://www.thinprint.com/

Personally I do infrastructure not desktop so dont know too much re the config.

 

[Phal]

In what way do they use it? Most of their solutions seem to be orientated around remote users needing to print etc.

 

[iaind]

I've used thinprint before and its a very good product for what it is but I cant see how it will help here...

Its a fantastic print compression product, very effective for printing over RDP etc...

 

[CraigN]

i work for a firm of solicitors.

We had Tikit fully customize our word system when they installed our interwoven DMS,

We have recently changed to HP MFD's and we use a new system were by users have to flash there smartcard at the printer which then spits out there print job.

this means we now have no trays

 

[Phal]

i work for a firm of solicitors.

We had Tikit fully customize our word system when they installed our interwoven DMS,

We have recently changed to HP MFD's and we use a new system were by users have to flash there smartcard at the printer which then spits out there print job.

this means we now have no trays

So how do users print? They get the document ready on their PC and walk it over to a printer? Or the job sends accross the network but they need to swipe something on the printer to get the job out? :\