We print a lot of multi-page and variable page letters which we then proceed to envelope.

Due to the way the the enveloping mechanisim works we have to feed last page first and the first page marks the end of the set which is then folded and enveloped.

Our current printers stack face-up ensuring that the pages are in the reverse order.

This works fine.

We are now in the process of replacing our printers and I am noticing that many printers do not offer a face-up option on the stacker and so we have to print face-down or look at a reduced number of printers.

I am sure I could use to use PP5/PW5 to reverse the order the pages are printed. My best guess would be to do the following.

Ensure all pages for the document are treated as one "whole" page. (This is the case for some but not all so I think PW would help me).

Then use a run page facility to call last page first and repeat until all pages printed.

The coding would require reducing line counts and could become quite complex as I am not a programmer by trade.

Please advise if this is feasible and/or indeed common practise. Maybe the community have a better way of doing this, or I am missing an obvious solution.

I could always just simply look at printers that stack face-up.

Thanks

I've created a small program called Fileflipper to reverse the order of single-line data (tab-delimited, CSV, etc., one record per line) for this kind of application. Something similar could be done with a script in PW5.

Read in one line, save it to an array, continue. When all lines are read in, take the last line from the array and write it to a new file. Open the new file and process as usual.