You need a printer with ‘D’ or ‘d’ in the model name e.g. Laserjet 4250 Dtn (Duplex, twin-bin, network)

Thanks for your response. But I think I have not conveyed you my printing problem correctly. Because the answers I am getting are not what I want.
Firstly let me ask you’ll my queries.

a) I need to know if an HP laser jet printer is capable of printing on both sides of the paper. What I mean by this is that it should print front overlay and back overlay on a single page.
b) Currently I am able to print the front overlay on first page and the back overlay on the second page. This means the printer is taking two pages to print.
c) Is it that the back overlay is always printed on a new page , instead of being printed on the back side of the front overlay page.

My target is to get the front and back overlay printed on a single page. Let me know if this is possible. If yes , how. Other wise I will keep trying things that are simply not supported by AS/400.

Please go through my entire set of questions I have raised so far on printing back overlay and the steps I have taken.

Thanks a lot for your answers so far.
Sankal

To get the back overlay printed, I think you need your dds to provide a new page so when you reach the overflow condition– probably a line count or you’ve finished printing the last page.

Here is the DDS – I’m printing XXX on the back – if/when this works replace the ‘XXX’ with ‘ ‘ and you’ll
print a blank space on the back – which will not affect the printing of the Ts and Cs

A R BACKFMT
A 1 1 ‘XXX’

When xxxxxxxx is the condition you’re testing for
C if xxxxxxxxxx
C WRITE BACKFMT
C WRITE HEADER
C endif

If you view the spool file it will count 6 pages.
Phil

I am totally confused about this back overlay.
Like I said before I have variable PO data that is being printed with the front overlay file containing the company logo. My back overlay file has the PO terms.

The front overlay is being printed properly with the variable data. But now I want the back overlay file with PO terms to be printed on the back of the same page. How do I make the printer do it.

My printer file is compiled as DEVTYP= *AFPDS, DUPLEX=*YES, FRONTOVL (FRTONE), BACKOVL(BACKONE) , CONSTANTBACK =*NOCONSTANT

Tried to print with *CONSTANT also but did not achieve the desired results.
All I need to know is how is the DDS for printer file defined. i.e do I need to specify SKIPB or SKIPA anywhere in the record format.

Please give me a small example of DDS with entire code and RPG sample code and the way the PO will be printed with this sample code.

Now lets say my PO details have in all 3 pages. All these three pages should get printed with the company logo in front and the PO terms and conditions defined in the back overlay file to be printed on the back of these 3 pages. So in total the number of pages should remain as three only without any one actually doing the form feed or adjusting the page manually.

Thanks a lot in advance,
Sankal

Thanks for the reply, as per your suggession I did try with *NOCONSTANT. But with this it does not print the back overlay at all.

Do you have any other suggession.