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Multiple tray/copy printing in Windows

I'm looking for a way to achieve the following. I wan't to purchase a printer with 3 paper trays. Each tray will have a different color of paper (white, yellow, and pink) and all will be 8 1/2 x 11. What I would like to do is print an invoice from Quickbooks and have it automaticlaly print 1 page to each tray so I will have 3 copies on diferent colored paper. (I am already doing this with a dot matrix printer and I want to get rid of it). The problem I have is I do not want to have to print each copy separately by selecting each printer 3 times for each separate copy.

Is there a way I can create a virtual printer that when I send a print job to it will send 1 copy to each tray? Is this something I can do in Windows and how would I go about doing it or can you offer any other suggestions?
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Hi there,

How exactly are you doing it with a dot matrix currently?
check this out:
http://www.eprintdriver.com/multiple-eprint-printers.html
I think you just have to create 2 printer copies set up each copy and the main printer to print on each tray. and the use this software to do the printing in the 2 printers copies as an automatic task you print on the main printer, you have to set it up in a way that when one finish then the other star and so on.
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Currently the Dot Matrix printer uses carbon paper to achieve multiple copies.
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you can use Laser Carbonless Paper for printer laser
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This is better than what I was looking for. Thank you for the advice!