Number of copies
PrintShop Mail allows you to print a number of copies per page. The Expression Editor can be used to generated multiple copies of each page in your document.
To setup the number of copies
- Select the Layouts panel.
- Select the desired layout and click on Number of Copies, to open the Expression Editor.
Number Text String
Once the Expression Editor is open:
- Double click on the VAL function from the function list. The expression will be pasted into the Expression Edit field.
- Select the string value of the database field containing the number of copies.
Non-numerical Text String
In this case, the data field does not contain a number string, but it does have a field to be used as "Trigger".
In the expression "IF([TRIGGER]="A",VAL("12"),IF([TRIGGER]="B",VAL("8"),VAL("1"))) ", the field name "TRIGGER" has either an "A" or a "B" in it. The number of copies for "A" would be 12, and the number of copies for "B" would be 8. At the end of the expression, you need to add VAL("1"), because the function must result in a numeric value.
Note: When you use layout condition SKIP for your PrintShop Mail documents with multiple layouts, or when you have applied variable Number of Copies, this may cause that the size of the record sets (the number of actual printed layouts per record) will be different per record set. This in turn may cause that some record sets will be split across different stacks.
You can also print multiple copies of your document by entering the desired number of copies in the Print Dialog. To do this:
- On the File menu, click Print.
- In the Number of copies box, enter the number of copies you want to print.
To print a complete copy of the document before the first page of the next copy is printed, select the Collate check box. If you prefer to print all copies of the first page and then print all copies of subsequent pages, clear the check box.
Limitations
- The output result will be one copy if a single zero ("0") is used in any part of the Expression.
- For multi-page documents, you need to set the number of copies per each individual page.
- Number of copies can not be used in combination with Layout Repetition.
- Number of copies can not be used when FreeForm Print Technology is selected, use FreeForm 2 instead.