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Re: Background Printing


  • Subject: Re: Background Printing
  • From: waynemelrose <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 14:04:24 +1000

Hmm.. I havne’t tried using the start and end pages, although I’ve found that 10.8 printing a PDF prints perfectly in the background as you’d expect.

I also put a ‘quit’ after the print line, that will quit the print monitor, although I don’t know what you’d do about quitting an application unless you were fully aware of the type of file you’re printing.

I guess PDF is able to background print given that it IS PDF?



> On 20 Aug 2014, at 11:23 am, Rick Gordon <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> FWIW, with another wrinkle (print settings, not color), I tried the following script in 10.6.8, choosing a 5-page MS Word file:
>
> tell application "HP 6MP via JetDirect"
>  set vFile to choose file
>  print vFile with properties {starting page:1, ending page:1} without print dialog
> end tell
>
> It launched, Word,  opened and closed the file and printed it in background; but it printed all 5 pages, and did not quit Word.
>
> Rick Gordon
>
> ---------------------
> On 8/19/14 4:58 PM, Rick Gordon wrote:
>> Check out http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=25916. Shane Stanley
>> also contributed to this thread with an AppleScriptObjC angle. There are
>> some pre-built Quartz filters, such as Gray Tone, but I'm not sure
>> (think not, actually) if getting it to grayscale will assure
>> black-ink-only printing.
>>
>> Rick Gordon
>
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 >Re: Background Printing (From: waynemelrose <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Background Printing (From: Rick Gordon <email@hidden>)
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