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Collate setting on printer6/12/2023 ![]() So what does collate mean when it comes to printing? When used by a printing service, collating means putting together different sheets of print media or different parts to create a set. However, the meaning changes slightly when used by a printing professional. We just completed an upgrade to GP 2018.Collate is a word that many people have experience with – generally known as a verb to describe collecting, arranging, or assembling items in a specified order. Is she printing transaction level checks?ĭynamics GP Credentialing Council-Vice Chair In GP when you hit print checks you don't normally get asked where to print them to - from "Print Payments" batch screen. How is she printing checks? I ask because what you describe above is not out-of-the-box GP functionality. I can't find any setting, I was just hoping someone else knew of some they could point me at. By process of elimination, that leaves the application as the likely focal point. Of the involved pieces in the equation, the OS didn't change, neither did the printer or the print driver. Everything operated as desired prior to the upgrade. It allowed driver manufacturers to build a driver for the OS rather than for an application.) What I'm trying to find is if there is a setting somewhere in GP (which would then get handed off to the driver) to control the print collation settings, because the default on the driver is somehow getting overridden. ![]() (This was actually one of the revolutionary things Windows brought to the table back in the 95/98 days. to the driver along with the document/format. All Windows applications use a standard Microsoft print interface with the ability to hand off various settings such as duplex, number of copies, etc. ![]() My professional background includes being a printer development test administrator for seven years at HP. And yes, we print in batches as there are typically >100 checks at a time. We don't have any third-party add-ons which affect physical printing (I don't count Adobe Acrobat), so I'm pretty sure that what we are using is out-of-the-box functionality (we've been using GP since before Microsoft acquired them). I suppose I could try the PostScript driver if someone thought that would make any difference.) When printing from other applications (such as Microsoft Office), the printer options don't by default have "Print Collated" checked, which is why I thought it might be coming from GP. (As an aside, the printers are HP LaserJet 4500 and we are using the PCL6/PCLXL drivers. The typical GP Print dialogue box would open asking which destination (Screen, Printer, File) and then once was selected it opens the Print Preferences dialogue box (from the printer driver), which is where the users are able to deselect the "Print Collated" feature. Our print environment has typically been to local printers rather than Named network printers, so I'm pretty sure the answer to your question is no. Is there a way we can default their printing to "no collation"?īy any chances, were you using Names Printers in the previous GP build ? This is a typical scenario where Names Printers could be used to specify the sort order of print jobs and/or the source of paper (i.e. All have exactly the same printer and drivers and the same settings on the driver - no collation by default. We verified and this is happening for at least two others who also print checks. Now she is saying that the box for collation is always checked, forcing her to uncheck it before she prints. What they do is print two copies of the check - one on actual stock and a second on plain paper as a stub. Prior to the upgrade, the default on printing checks was no collation. One of my users usually prints out the payables checks and she came to me asking if the print settings were changed during the upgrade. We just completed an upgrade to GP 2018. Subject: Check printing after upgrade - default to non-collate?
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