Printing With Dot Matrix Printer On Pre-printed Forms
Dec 12, 2013
My company started using preprinted forms to print out delivery receipts with a dot matrix printer. We only need to print 2 pieces of data on this form at specific places, then move onto a new form and print the next 2 pieces of info. Ive tried searching and haven't found anything remotely related to this situation.
Essentially, we will have a spreadsheet with 2 columns with cells containing stock codes eg:
StockA1 StockB1
StockA2 StockB2
etc
The number of rows will vary, one week may be 20 rows of info, the next may be 76 rows.
I need to be able to take the info in each row, and send it to the printer so that it prints in the right place of the form, and move onto the next row/page until all rows have been printed.
Currently, I have a spreadsheet with a bunch of empty rows, 2 rows where the info needs to be, then more empty rows followed by the next 2 items, empty rows etcetc...As you can imagine this could require some tedious reworking week after week as the number of forms to be printed changes each week.
There has to be a better way to do this! I havent got the experience of working with excel (or dot matrix printers)
I have the following code to print a selection of data which is fine but i need to have in the code a different printer. So, for example my default printer needs to stay the same but when this spreadsheet is open i need the data to be printed to another printer.
Many people use Excel to generate forms that will be printed off and carried around on a sheet of paper, because the boxes and lines are nice and square, and straight, Word is not so co-operative
There have been lots of queries how to auto-number such forms, so that you can later file or issue them in a particular order, or use the numbers later as a reference doing other stuff.
Here's what I want to do:
I run a limousine service taking clients from places like hotels to various destinations
I have a little travel voucher form, to be filled by hand, 3 copies to a sheet, so we are gonna print them, and cut the page into 3 lil vouchers. Like printing lottery or competition tickets. The vouchers have artwork to suit the place requesting my service.
They are NOT invoices, to be opened, numbered, worked on, and THEN printed
Cell G2 will start autonumbering at 1001, Cell G18 would be 1002, Cell G34 would be 1003, then when the second page prints, we get 1004, 1005, and 1006 respectively. Each sheet has to be individually cut and stacked
Alternately, we decide a quantity to print (50) and start G18 at say 1050 and G34 at 1101. This would be better, because when cutting the paper up with a guillotine, the first 50 vouchers are already in number order, the 2nd 50 get stacked under them, and finally the 3rd 50 below that, so now my stack of vouchers runs from 1001 to 1150 nice and easy and neat
A drawback with this is that I have to do specific print runs and somewhere in the document, specify the starting number for G2
I have heard of a method to print, say 20 forms, starting say, 1001, ending 1020 and a text file saves the last number used, so the next print run picks up from there, at 1021, can that method be combined in? I'm working in a small office that needs these vouchers but we dont wanna have a commercial printshop tool up (big $) to do small print runs
I can also do the vouchers for other suppliers to use with different artwork
How do I send a text file to a usb dot matrix printer as opposed to a parallel port.
I have an Excel spreadsheet that prints labels on a dot matrix printer. Until now the printer used a parallel port. My Excel workbook generates a text file "C:PRINTLABEL.TXT". I then execute a shell command to run a batch file called
"C:PRINTLABEL.BAT". The BAT file contains the line ---------------------- copy C:PRINTLABEL.txt lpt3 ------------------------ The shell command contains the lines (not all lines are shown) ------------------- On Error GoTo ErrorHandler ' Enable error-handling routine. RetVal = Shell("C:PRINTLABEL.BAT") ' PRINTS LABEL. Exit Sub ' Exit to avoid handler. ----------------------------------------
Now I have to deal with a newer dot-matrix printer (EpsonLX300+II) that is able to use a USB port.
How do I print the plain txt file to the printer using the USB port (LPT1/2/3 are all parallell ports, so the batch file does not work as it stands.
how to automate the printing of Excel sheets each with a different name to a Cute pdf printer?
I have a VBA procedure which uses Windows API calls to write to a system ini file (which I understand is a necessary requirement of the Cute software), which loops through all the sheets I need to print, and sends them one by one to a Cute pdf printer. However each time the 'print' instruction is invoked - I say print but of course this is really a file save process, the Save As dialog box pops up asking the user to confirm the save.
What I want to achieve is the file gets saved automatically, with the relevant sheet name with no confimation dialog box.
We have just refreshed our entire printer fleet to Xerox printers and as part of the project we have selected all defaults to B&W and duplex.
On a multi sheet excel file, If we click print then choose entire workbook and then change the print options to colour, it prints the only first worksheet in colour, and all the others in mono. i have read that excel treats each worksheet separately and does not cascade the changes made made in the first worksheet even if all sheets have been selected.
How can I get them all to print in colour?
We can set up another printer and change the defauts to colour but we dont want to go down that road and have 2 printers installed for each model.
Is there any code out there can will/ can change the properties of the first worksheet and cascade this throughout the workbook.
We use XP and W7 workstations and office 2003, 2007 and 2010. By the end of the year all workstations will be W7 and Office 2010.
I am trying to print a number of forms with a reference number however when i print i want the number to increase to the next one.
I have used
Sub PrintCopies_ActiveSheet() Dim CopiesCount As Long Dim copynumber As Long CopiesCount = Application.InputBox("How many copies do you want?", Type:=1) 'Now the program wants you to input how many pages you like to print.
[Code] .......
However once i have ran it, save it, and then come back to it later to print again the numbers go back to 1 to 'X', how do I get it to start from the last number printed?
Using VBA, I wish to work out the inverse matrix of a large matrix (100*100), but keep getting the # Num! Error. I am using the minverse function. I have defined variable as "variant", does this give me the same possiblities in terms of number size as the variable "Double"?
For a table like the one below produced for the sake of example (actual is much much bigger) I want to make it list rows that are true for a certain column for a certain variable in the matrix. So for say water terrain, which types of activity can I do i.e. swimming. Or for Offroad the activites which I can't do i.e. Run and Swim.
ActivityWaterRoadOffroad Jog nym Run nyn Walk nyy Swim ynn y=yes n=no m=maybe
I would like to know if there is a way to print several different workbooks at once but keeping my printing format which I would like to be Landscape and Fit to one page. Reason is simple as I work in a office where staff is handed in several jobs to do everyday. They finish the jobs and log all the info on the database. I log on to database and put all their daily diaries and because it is all over the place I have to go in each file and set printing preferences which takes an hour in the morning and hour in the evening. I could do with some sort of automation where all diaries are automatically printed in Landscape and Fit on one page.
I have a report that is generated from a manufacturing process that looks like the example below. the report is 40 pages long when all the data is printed. i am looking for a way to only print this range if a dimension is "out of tolerance". if the dimension is within tolerance, there is always the "garbage" text of plus and minus. if every row is "within tolerance" in the range the cells in the OutTol column would all contain the "garbage" text but it will not always be identical. so, in summary, actual OutTol values = print and all "garbage" = not printed.
In excel sheet some times I highlight Cells, Rows or Columns for references but while printing these highlights get printed. is there any formatting tip so that only values are printed but highlights don't get printed (not even in grey scale).
My spreadsheet is a dual purpose spreadsheet, it is my printable catalog of product offerings as well as my worksheet for my cost and my cost markup. I have apx 2500 rows of product offerings.
My question -I would like to be able to print my catalog without my cost markup columns being printed. It is not practical for me to hide the column, then print, then unhide the column again every time I want to print out my catalog. I would like the columns to always be visible, but just not print.
The following code works fine except when the sheet1 gets printed then its blank but in actual the sheet1 has got some information in it. SO why its printing a blank page.
I have this question for indentifying the last row (number) for each and every page to be printed.
As I am using a loop to determine the last row of the table in each print page, I am only able to do in "hard coded". And with this "hard-coded" row number, I can set bordering to the table so that table will not be printed without any border (for in between pages if table is more than a page)
But the problem is that I had discovered that once any other user start using wrap text, or even change the row height, the macro will still captures the pre-determined no. of rows to do the bordering (as shown in my code).
In my, I had restricted the zoom size so that the quotation will always be the same format. Hence, based on this control zoom, the printable page changes if the row height changes too.
Is there a way to 'lock' a page from being changed once it has been printed? It can be printed multiple times but want it to not be able to be edited once it has been printed. Thinking I could have a control button on the page maybe and once it has been checked ok to print then click the button and it saves it as is and uneditable?
We have some reports on multiple worksheets. We need to ensure a legend/definition sheet is printed whenever one or several of the worksheets are printed. Is it possible to mandate a worksheet to be printed along w/ whatever else is being printed?
I have spent some time looking through the forum and even looked at Microsoft Excel help file and cannot seem to get exactly what I need. I have worksheets that I found the code on this site that I can put page breaks every so many rows. I have it set for 26 so it will break for every 25 counting the header. Here is the
Sub PageBreaks() For I = 27 To 760 Step 25
ActiveSheet.HPageBreaks.Add Before:= Range("A" & I) Next I End Sub
The problem I am having is when I print the first page it has the headers in them, for example.
LastName, FirstName, StuID, GrdLvl
How can I get a row placed right after each page break with with the column headers so each sheet I print will have the headers with the 25 rows of informatio. But then not be there after I print so If I need to sort I won't have a problem with all the headers.
I have a worksheet which has two large tables. When one table flows onto another page, the users need to see the title i.e. Header of that table. How can I do this?
I have a document that I need to track all changes to. I have a macro running perfectly right now that tracks all of the content changes to the form. What I am wondering is if I can add something that would also record when a copy is printed and the user that makes the copy. Here is the code I have right now:
Code: Private Sub Workbook_SheetChange(ByVal Sh As Object, ByVal Target As Range) Application.ScreenUpdating = False Sheets("Revisions").Unprotect Password:="Hm72K9" If ActiveSheet.Name = "Revisions" Then Exit Sub Application.EnableEvents = False
Would it be possible to have a unique number appear on every indivually printed sheet?
My worksheet in Excel fits onto one sheet of paper and I would like a unique number to appear whenever I print, even after closing system and re-opening file at a later date (the last printed sheet is 'remembered' so the next printed sheet is the next number in sequence).
So the first time I print a batch of say 100 I would have 100 x identical pages EACH with a unique number, i.e., '0001' to '0100'. The next time I print another 50 say, I would have '0101' to '0150' and so on.
In A1 I have the time (military h:mm) 8:00 In B1 I have the 30 min braek we take at work 0.30 in C1 the end of shift time (16:00) In D1 total hours (formula : = sum(C1-A1)-B1
and it is OK EXCEPT if the employee has the day off. In that case A1 and C1 are empty but because of B1 I get in D1 the terrible ####
How can I remedy this ... this sheet cannot be edited in anyway. ( I cannot delete or edit anything)
Thought of an IF but the #### are not a value so I cannot do much in the way of conditional fprmats ... how not to show these #### when the sheet is printed.
Is there a way I can display the total of a column on each printed page?
I have a table which is about 6 columns long but is hundreds of rows down. I would like the total of one of these colums to be displayed on every printed page. Is this possible?
I make a lot of charts that have text boxes, or autoshapes in them. Often, the text boxes will be shifted in print preview. Even if they look right in print preview, they some times shift when being printed.
WYSIWYG, doesn't seem to apply
I've noticated that when viewing the spread sheet normally if I change the amount of zoom the text boxes/autoshapes will appear to move around, but what ever the position is for a given zoom amount, it will be same everytime.
Is there a "magic" zoom level that will display what will be printed, or are there some other tips to What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get in excel?
