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Mail Marge to printer doesn't print
With MS office 2000. I merge to printer and it shows that it is merging pages at the bottom of the screen but nothing is sent to the printer. I open the print queue and there is nothing there. Sometimes I just have to restart Word or the PC to fix the problem, but it's getting annoying. Any suggestions or solutions would be appreciated. -- d2c ------------------------------------------------------------------------ d2c's Profile: http://www.officehelp.in/member.php?userid=4221 View this thread: http://www.officehelp.in/showthread.php?t=1166451 Posted from - http://www.officehelp.in |
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Mail Marge to printer doesn't print
A few thoughts:
a. if you merge to a new document, does that always work? What happens if you try to print the result? b. does it make any difference if you enable or disable background printing in Word Tools|Options|Print c. does this problem affect /all/ merges, or just /some/ merges? d. are you printing via a network? If so, is the network always available when you merge? Are there any constraints on the size of the print file created (e.g. if you are printing via a server, could it be running out of space or could some other resource be scarce) ? Peter Jamieson "d2c" wrote in message ... With MS office 2000. I merge to printer and it shows that it is merging pages at the bottom of the screen but nothing is sent to the printer. I open the print queue and there is nothing there. Sometimes I just have to restart Word or the PC to fix the problem, but it's getting annoying. Any suggestions or solutions would be appreciated. -- d2c ------------------------------------------------------------------------ d2c's Profile: http://www.officehelp.in/member.php?userid=4221 View this thread: http://www.officehelp.in/showthread.php?t=1166451 Posted from - http://www.officehelp.in |
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Mail Marge to printer doesn't print
I haven't tried merging to a document, because we are dealing with db files of 10,000 plus. I have background printing off because it seems to spool better that way. It is on some not all merges. I usually restart word and it fixes the problem. I'm not using a network either, but it is a high speed industrial laser printer that I'm spooling to, I don't think that should make a difference. One thing that I noticed, is that I had the same problem with another PC and both are using the same Word software installed from the same cd. Maybe there's a problem with the software. -- d2c ------------------------------------------------------------------------ d2c's Profile: http://www.officehelp.in/member.php?userid=4221 View this thread: http://www.officehelp.in/showthread.php?t=1166451 Posted from - http://www.officehelp.in |
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Mail Marge to printer doesn't print
I haven't tried merging to a document, because we are dealing with db
files of 10,000 plus. OK, from a Word perspective, I would say that is "large." I don't deal with that kind of volume here and I suspect most of the regulars in here don't either. Although I am told by large-scale Word users that the product is capable of dealing with large documents (several hundred/thousand pages of text) without running into difficulties, those people are not usually producing documents using Mailmerge, and different considerations may apply. In particular, each mailmerge results in a single print job. Even if you are printing individual letters via mailmerge, Word does not send each letter as a seaprate job to the printer - the entire merge of 10,000 pages (or 20,000 if your letter has two pages) is in a single job. That job has to be processed and stored by your print spool subsystem (in whatever format is being sent to the spooler), and it is possible that it is running out of a resource. Also, you may find that mailmerge grinds to a halt because of various memory or resource-related issues that have nothing to do with the print spooler. Fr example, if you use formatted bullets in a mail merge data source, the chances are that output will grind to a halt quickly. What to do depends on whether you are just trying to get this merge out of the way (if so, do it in parts of several hundred records at a time and accept the manual slog) or are trying to set up an efficient system for regular large-scale merges. In the latter case, you'll need to determine what the first limiting factor is (I'd probably start by merging to an output document and seeing how long it took to grind to a halt, or how many records I could safely process per batch), then workaround that, then look for the next one, and so on. Sorry to be rather vague, but IME it's difficult to try to get a handle on performance problems unless you have the offending system to hand. Peter Jamieson "d2c" wrote in message ... I haven't tried merging to a document, because we are dealing with db files of 10,000 plus. I have background printing off because it seems to spool better that way. It is on some not all merges. I usually restart word and it fixes the problem. I'm not using a network either, but it is a high speed industrial laser printer that I'm spooling to, I don't think that should make a difference. One thing that I noticed, is that I had the same problem with another PC and both are using the same Word software installed from the same cd. Maybe there's a problem with the software. -- d2c ------------------------------------------------------------------------ d2c's Profile: http://www.officehelp.in/member.php?userid=4221 View this thread: http://www.officehelp.in/showthread.php?t=1166451 Posted from - http://www.officehelp.in |
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