Microsoft App name as prefix for print job names

[klunk]

This is so annoying. Just about every MS application
PP, Word, etc prepends the full application name to the
front of print job names. So a file named "MyPres.ppt"
gets sent to the printer as:
"Microsoft PowerPoint - MyPress.ppt"

This totally screws up job-naming on many RIPs.
Especially ones that don't have a facility to edit
the job name and have a restricted number of
characters of a job name to display.

It's just wonderful looking through a list of jobs
to reprint and seeing this:

Microsoft PowerPoin...
Microsoft PowerPoin...
Microsoft PowerPoin...
Microsoft PowerPoin...
Microsoft PowerPoin...
Microsoft PowerPoin...
Microsoft PowerPoin...
Microsoft PowerPoin...
Microsoft PowerPoin...
Microsoft PowerPoin...
Microsoft PowerPoin...
Microsoft PowerPoin...
Microsoft PowerPoin...
Microsoft PowerPoin...
Microsoft PowerPoin...
Microsoft PowerPoin...
Microsoft PowerPoin...
Microsoft PowerPoin...

It at least should be an option to turn it off!!!

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

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[Steve Rindsberg]

This is so annoying. Just about every MS application
PP, Word, etc prepends the full application name to the
front of print job names. So a file named "MyPres.ppt"
gets sent to the printer as:
"Microsoft PowerPoint - MyPress.ppt"

If you print directly to a RIP, there's probably no way around this, but if
your workflow lets you print to file then process the files first, it'd be
fairly simple to write a small app that looks for:

%%Title: Microsoft PowerPoint - presentation_name

in the first few lines of the PS file and changes it to

%%Title: presentation_name

 

[klunk]

Office doesn't provide the functionality/option that you are looking for.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) think that it's important that
Office provide this kind of functionality, don't forget to send your
feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

Thank you! I didn't know MS had a wishlist. I submitted
the request for print job naming.

 

[klunk]

If you print directly to a RIP, there's probably no way around this, but if
your workflow lets you print to file then process the files first, it'd be
fairly simple to write a small app that looks for:

%%Title: Microsoft PowerPoint - presentation_name

in the first few lines of the PS file and changes it to

%%Title: presentation_name

Thanks for the good suggestion. We've done that manually
and it works in some cases, but some RIPs ignore the name in
the PS file, using the filename instead (which is better, actually).

Some RIPs monitor a folder for dropped Postscript files, so printing
to file in that location is a workaround we use.

What we also sometimes do on RIPs that don't support renaming
jobs in the queue, is converting to PDF and printing from
Acrobat.

This may seem trivial, but getting jobs to RIP correctly from the
dozens of applications out there is a battle. The last thing needed
is one more layer of frustration.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks for the good suggestion. We've done that manually

and it works in some cases, but some RIPs ignore the name in
the PS file, using the filename instead (which is better, actually).

Sure is, because you can control that when you print ... which you do,
obviously:

Some RIPs monitor a folder for dropped Postscript files, so printing
to file in that location is a workaround we use.

This may seem trivial, but getting jobs to RIP correctly from the
dozens of applications out there is a battle. The last thing needed
is one more layer of frustration.

Doesn't seem in the least trivial to me. On the other hand, I used to run a
service bureau where we had a RIPping good time with these fun issues daily.