Selecting Paper Tray When Printing

If you have a multi-tray printer, Collect! enables you to use your printer's features when printing reports and letters. Whatever options your printer driver supports are available to you when printing within Collect! Multi-tray, manual, tractor, and envelope feeds are examples of the settings you can choose if your printer is capable of these functions.

When batch printing, you can tell Collect! to select different trays for your different letters and envelopes, on an individual basis.

These features require that you are printing via Device Context.

There are two ways to select your multi-tray options, using the Report Output Options form and using the Report Writer's @TRAY command. Each of these methods is described below.

Printing Output Options

In the Report Output Options form that is displayed whenever you print in Collect!, a field labeled Tray is made visible when you select Printer for your report output. This is only available when you are printing via Device Context.

A pick list on the Tray field lists the options available to you. These options depend on your printer driver. If you have several printers in your Printer list, the contents of the pick list attached to the Tray field will change depending on the features of the printer you select to print to.

Tray Command

The @TRAY command may be added to your letters or reports to specify a particular tray for special reports. It is important to only use this command for features you know your printer supports. When Collect! encounters a report with the @TRAY command, this overrides settings chosen in the Report Output Options form.

This command requires that you are printing via Device Context.

SYNTAX: @TRAY {#}

The following values may apply for #:

For example put the @TRAY 4 command on a line by itself at the top of a report, before any other commands, to cause it to prompt for manual sheet input.

This command will only work for functions that your printer driver supports. If you are unsure of the features your printer supports, please refer to the printer manual or ask your vendor for details.

See Also

- Report Topics Index for a list of all report and letter topics
- Report Sample to view sample reports and letters