Deferred Printing Questions

[tracyamb]

I am looking for information about deferred printing in MAS 90. Our company is searching for ways to go "paperless" and the deferred printing option in MAS 90 seems to be the way on the surface. I have looked through our manuals and I cannot find information on about deferred printing as far as "How many items can the deferred print jobs be held", "How long can items be stored in deferred printing ", etc. If anyone has any information please let know the source.
Thanks,
Tracy

 

[drdebit]

I don't know if there are limits if you started putting everything in there. I have a 10-15 page sales report I run every week that I store in deferred print. The controller adds some monthly reports to that. He has recently deleted a bunch of stuff, so I can't check this anymore, but I think we had 5-6 years of stuff in it at the first of the year. The issue we have with using it is that the more stuff you have on the list, the slower the print list loads (which is why he deleted a bunch of stuff).
The other thing, which may or may not be a problem for you is that you have to specify a default printer when you save the run. When you're ready to print, if you want to print to a printer other than that default, you have to do some additional printer specification prior to actual printing (I was vague there because I can't remember the precise steps - i'll look them up for you if you want them).
I don't get to go to product meetings and such, so I don't know about the "new" and the "old" parts of MAS90, but before I made a lot of plans around deferred printing, I'd also make inquiry about whether that's a part of the program that will be around for awhile, or if it is coming to a phase out stage.

The approach I wanted to take to the issue of "paperless" was to use acrobat and create pdf files. I couldn't get there - my memory of what happened was this:
Using distiller-a printout happened but it went to some adobe location and gave me no chance for operator intervention. It used a default name (cant remember if it was adobe or mas90 default) and would be overwritten the next time the report was run.
PDF writer let me intervene and specify a printout and location-but I HAD to do that and that removes the efficiency of computer naming.
Neither acrobat writer would duplicate the automatic naming and sequential numbering process of mas90 printing a paper journal. So I've been unable to proceed with that idea.