Printing in Word

[wuxapian]

Does anyone know if there is a way of controling which tray a printout comes from.

e.g. if I have headed note paper in one tray and plain paper in another tray could I make the first page of my printout come from tray one and the second page come from tray 2?

TIA
Wux.

 

[JohnYingling]

Try Recording a Macro while selecting the tray from the Word Print Setup. See if the resulting macro code shows Tray Selection.

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[benjamenus]

we do exactly this and it can cause lots of problems. here are a few things I've picked up along the way...

we use different printers, so our code looks like

Select Case ActivePrinter

Case Is = "Fountain1 on \\SHEFFQH2\PQ_FOUNTAIN1"
With ActiveDocument.PageSetup
.FirstPageTray = wdPrinterLowerBin
.OtherPagesTray = wdPrinterLargeCapacityBin

...

The best way to find the ActivePrinter name is msgbox(activeprinter). The name of the printer and port is critical so copy it exactly!

Changing drivers can cause problem with the way trays are labelled.

Your printer (the actual device itself) should be set up for all trays to be plain paper. If any are set to anything else, then you are dealing with Paper Type rather than Paper Source and it'll cause conflicts.

Finally, if you do have any problems, try printing to different trays from Word manually - if it doesn't work, then it's not your code that's at fault (check all settings and, if in doubt, reinstall the driver)