Printing exams - pdfPrintSequential

If you have a personalized exam, one PDF for all students, and you like to print it and the output should be:

• shifted (easy separation), or
• stapled,

than use the pdfPrintSequential script (commandline).

• For each exam print, the current page number is shown.
• You can stop a running print job, by pressing Ctrl-C in the commandline.
• If you stopped the printing, restart the printjob by specifing the last printed page + 1.

• <printer>: a printer name like k, jcolor or jcolor.

• <pages per exam>: If you have an exam pdf with 200 pages (one big file, 25 students, 8 pages per exam) the whole file will be splitted in jobs as <pages per exam> and such part will be printed.

• <start page to print from>: '1', if you start from scratch, else the last reported printed page + 1.

• <delay in seconds>: This is only necessary if you want to be sure that all exams are in exact same order as in the PDF. A reordering might appear inside the printer, if there are multiple print jobs at the same time in the local printer queue. If a delay is specified, this helps to take care that are never more than 2 jobs in the local printer queue at the same time. The amount of delay in seconds depends on the print job size. Start with 5 seconds and stop and increase if it is too short. You can check the local printer queue on the touchscreen at the copier.

# K Floor (k)
$ pdfPrintSequential -o Duplex=None -o StaplePos=1PLU -o StapleType=StapleON -o sides=one-sided <file.pdf> k <pages per exam> <start page to print from> <delay in seconds>
# J Floor (jcolor_booklet) - with color
$ pdfPrintSequential -o Duplex=None -o StaplePos=1PLU -o StapleType=StapleON -o sides=one-sided -o print-color-mode=Color <file.pdf> jcolor_booklet <pages per exam> <start page to print from> <delay in seconds>

Example:

• Most exams are single sided, so switch of the default Duplex mode.

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