Combine two or more print jobs

In this case, we combine two or more print jobs in one output.

This could allow you to combine separate print jobs into a single print job in order to staple the combined output document.

Another example could be bringing two or more documents together for making a booklet on your RICOH MFP.

By following this example you will learn how to use the Combine Printouts feature.

Print&Share configuration

Please follow the steps to build this case:

  1. Create a new profile with a single printer channel.
  2. Go to the General-tab page of the Profile dialog.
  3. Change the Output: option to Documents are combined into one transmission.
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  4. Close the dialogs by clicking the OK buttons.

When you open e.g. Microsoft Word and a print a single-page document to Print&Share, you will see that the number of pages is set to 1/1:

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...and the Loaded document(s): are set to 1/1:

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Now open Microsoft Word again and print another single-page document to Print&Share, you will notice that the number of pages has been changed to 1/2 but the Loaded document(s): are still set to 1/1:

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We successfully combined two print jobs into a single print job by using Print&Share!

How to combine per two print jobs?

If you have followed the configuration above, you will notice when you print each time to Print&Share, it keeps on combining all print jobs to a single print job.
Ofcourse we would like to add a trigger that could start a new print job combination.

The solution for this is configuring Auto Send&Close.

We will configure Print&Share so that it automatically processes (read: prints) the combined job, after it has combined two print jobs.
In other words: if you send two print jobs to Print&Share it will process the combined document. If you send a third print job, Print&Share will wait untill it receives another print job to be combined.

  1. With the profile created in previous steps, go again to the General-tab page of the Profile dialog.
  2. Enable the checkbox for Auto Send & Close.
  3. Click on the Options... button next to Auto Send & Close.
  4. Enable the checkbox for Enable auto send when:
  5. Enable the checkbox for Number of jobs in queue and set the value to 2.
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  6. Close the dialogs by clicking the OK buttons.

Now when printing two print jobs to Print&Share, you will notice that Print&Share automatically processes the jobs and closes.

This case shows the basic usage of the Auto Send & Close feature. Many options could be configured to create your desired document workflow.

Tip: When using Auto Send & Close, you might want to mark the profile as default. Unless you are working with Profile Recognition.