One way to staple with InterForm400 is stapling per recipient as described below. Prerequisites and an alternative is included here.
Enter Menu points:
5. Work with Auto Forms Control
4. Finishing Definitions
Press F6 to create a new finishing definition and select 02 for making the definition valid for stapling:
Create Finish Definition PRS310D
Definition name . . . . . . STAPLE Description . . . . . . . . test PH
Type of Finishing . . . . . 02 01 = Prinserter 02 = Stapling per Recipient 03 = Prepare for inserting 04 = PFE Mail-Printer 05 = Prepare for E-mail/Fax 06 = PDF Filenaming 07 = Reformat Spooled File 08 = XML definition 09 = XML+ definition (XML module required)
F3=Exit F12=Cancel
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If Copy Management is used in the overlay intended to be used for the inserted pages, the next screen must be filled in. The finish definition will then check the overlay for the number of pages defined in Copy Management.
If the field below is left blank, and the overlay selected for the pages to be inserted does contain Copy Management, the result will be unpredictable. Note that the overlay entered here is not necessarily the one being printed, but is merely used for pre-defining a value for the Copy Management.
Create Finish Definition PRS310D
Definition name . . . . . . STAPLE Description . . . . . . . . test PH
................................................................ Ty : : : All ready during the Prepare for Finishing function, the : : system has to know the number of copies of the individual : : page. If a succeeding merge with overlay function uses copy : : management, you will have to tell here which overlay will : : be used during the merge function. : : : : Overlay name . . . . . . . __________ : : File set . . . . . . . . __________ : : Or : : Selector name . . . . . . ________ : : Primary/Secondary set . . ____ *PRI, *SEC : : : : F3=Exit F4=Prompt F12=Cancel : : : :..............................................................: F3=Exit F12=Cancel
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Select the printer manufacturer and printer model via the screen below:
Select printer type for stapeling
Printer Manufacturer . . . . _ 1 = HP 2 = Lexmark 3 = IBM 4 = Kyocera 5 = Xerox 6 = Océ 7 = Canon 8 = Ricoh 9 = Minolta A = Toshiba U = User defined PJL
F3=Exit F12=Cancel
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Select U = User defined PJL to use your own self defined PJL sequences.
You will see the screen below, when you have selected the stapling commands above and pressed Enter:
Work with Finish Recipient-ID PRS320D
Definition name . . . . : STAPLE
Start with . . . . .
Type option, Press Enter. 2=Change 3=Copy 4=Delete 5=Display
Opt Seqnbr. Description
(No Recipient-ID created - Press F6 to create)
End F3=Exit F5=Refresh F6=Add F12=Cancel
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You should normally now add a single sequence number with F6=Add.
With the settings below you tell InterForm400 to staple the pages together, where the text in line 10 position 12-20 are the same:
(Please notice, that the page selection criteria is blank).
Create Finish Recipient-ID PRS330D
Definition name . . . . : STAPLE
Sequence number . . . . . 1 Description . . . . . . . Staple per customer
Page selection criteria Print line Position Oper Compare value - - -
Staple this page type . : *YES *YES, *NO Find recipient ID in the following positions Print line Position 10 12 - 20 - - - - - F3=Exit F12=Cancel F13=Select spooled file
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If the customer number is not found on all pages, then you can use the page selection criteria to select the recipient ID only on specific pages like below. You can even add multiple sequence numbers if the recipient ID is not placed in a fixed line. More information can be found for the sort definitions.
Staple this page type
This indicates if you want to staple the actual page selected by the page selection criteria above. The actual page could e.g. be a page that contains only key fields, that are used for identifying which pages, that should be stapled together, but you do not want to include the actual page in the final, stapled output. If that is the case, then you should state *NO for this parameter.
Create Finish Recipient-ID PRS330D
Definition name . . . . : STAPLE
Sequence number . . . . . 1 Description . . . . . . . Staple per customer
Page selection criteria Print line Position Oper Compare value 10 1 - 8 EQ Customer - -
Staple this page type . : *YES *YES, *NO Find recipient ID in the following positions Print line Position 10 12 - 20 - - - - - F3=Exit F12=Cancel F13=Select spooled file
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The stapling definition is activated via C=Prepare for finishing in Auto Forms Control.
