I know much has been written about printing in FMP, but I'm not sure that the question I have has been definitively answered. I seek advice from those with greater knowledge than I, which will be everybody.
I have a need to print to two different printers, a label printer and a colour laser printer. The label printer has few options and seems straight forward. For the laser printer I would like to specify colour/no colour, landscape/portrait and a specific output tray.
I have created a script with multiple If [Get(scriptparameter)] statements and enclosed in each is;
Print Setup [Restore, no dialogue]
Print [ Restore: Selected Printer; no dialogue]
The print script is called from the main script each time I need to send a print job.
If I have just the two lines above in a script, and call it from the Scripts Menu, it works as expected.
However, called from the main script with a script parameter to define the printer output, it doesn't. Not only does it not work, but it uses settings that I have no idea where they are coming from!!! (e.g. trying to pull paper from the bypass tray which is empty ) I've set printer defaults at the Windows level, and by going to File, Print Setup in FMP, but no joy.
What am I doing wrong???
I don't have much hair left, but what there is, is rapidly ending up on my desk!
Windows 7.0 Professional, 64 bit
FMP Adv 14.0.4(10-27-2015)
TIA,
Paul
