JasperPrintProcess

JasperPrintProcess is used to render JRPRINT documents that were created by JasperFillProcess to the printers or to the PRN files. The PRN files created can later be used as inputs by PrintProcess.

Important: This process is necessary in case the target printer is not Postscript enabled. If that target printer is Postscript enabled then you can simply use JasperProcess and PrintProcess in order.

The Id of the server or local printer. Value "-1" means the default printer and "-2" means Printer Selection Dialog.

If a PRN file needs to be created instead of printing to a printer a file name must be specified in this property. It can be the name of either a permanent or a temporary file.

Note that the temporary files are created under {WEB_APPLICATION_ROOT}/WEB-INF/MM-INF/~tempfiles directory and the names of the files are stored in pool variables or in process record fields. MoreMotion constantly scans the temporary files under this folder and deletes the expired files.

Definition	Description
WEB-INF/reports/products.prn	The output file is permanent and it is defined relative to the web application root.
c:\reports\products.prn	The output file is permanent.
v:products	The output file is temporary. It will be created under {WEB_APPLICATION_ROOT}/WEB-INF/MM-INF/~tempfiles directory and its name will be stored in pool variable products.
f:order	The output file is temporary. It will be created under {WEB_APPLICATION_ROOT}/WEB-INF/MM-INF/~tempfiles directory and its name will be stored in process record field order.

If the target printer is connected to the client computer and that printer is not Postscript enabled the PRN file generated with this process can be given to a following PrintProcess as input. Important! The printer driver of the client printer must also be installed on the server computer simply because the PRN file is generated by this driver.

The Job name to display on the print queue. If it is left blank the document name is used instead.

Defines how the document is printed on paper. The choices are "1. One Sided", "2. Two Sided Long Edge" and "3. Two Sided Short Edge".

Printing orientation. Choose one of "1. Landscape", "2. Portrait", "3. Reverse Landscape", "4. Reverse Portrait".

Defines which pages of the document to be printed. If left blank all the pages are printed.

Examples:
1 Only the 1st page.
1-5 The pages between 1 and 5
1,3,6-8 Pages 1,3,6,7,8

If the value of Copies property is greater than 1 then this property defines how to group the printed sheets in the output tray.

Assume that a document with 3 sheets are printed as 2 copies.
. Sheets Collate is false 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3
. Sheets Collate is true 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3