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print from notepad-duplex printing
Name: pateld1179 Date: August 8, 2008 at 07:36:08 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: 512mb Product: Dell
Comment:
Hi there,
Hope someone can help me out.
My dept using a bunch of batch files that execute a lot of things, but at the end print out log files by opening up Notepad and the /p command.
I am wondering if I can keep the same commands, but add an option to duplex print?
Name: alexanrs Date: August 8, 2008 at 08:37:38 Pacific
Reply:
Can't you just configure the default printing options in Windows so that it will do duplex printing?
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Response Number 2
Name: pateld1179 Date: August 8, 2008 at 08:47:56 Pacific
Reply:
That is an option, yes. But, that would mean everything printed would be duplexed. I am just looking for the print outs from these batch jobs be dupluxed...
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Response Number 3
Name: G-Norman Date: August 8, 2008 at 17:20:12 Pacific
Reply:
You can install a second copy of that printer driver and enable duplex printing only on the copy.
Name: alexanrs Date: August 8, 2008 at 19:38:26 Pacific
Reply:
Wouldn't be so simple, since to use it with notepad /p, that would need to be the default printer.
Actually, I came up with an idea: install a second copy of the printer driver, and use network sharing to redirect it to a free lpt port, eg: LPT1. Now, instead of
notepad /p file.txt
you could use
type file.txt > LPT1
then it would be sent to that copy of the driver, even though it is not set as default.
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Response Number 5
Name: G-Norman Date: August 10, 2008 at 06:26:31 Pacific
Reply:
Text sent by TYPE/NET USE doesn't make use of the Windows driver's settings, so it won't be duplexed.
The OP still needs to use a Windows program to print to the second driver, like Notepad (or Printfil, if you don't want it to be the default driver).
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