Word Bulk Printing   

I'm trying to come up with a way to perform bulk printing using Word.  A 
system already in place generates a number of pages that are populated with 
information from the underlying database.  However, because the number of 
pages in a print can sometimes reach into the millions and many of the pages 
include images, Word is obvious limited in the size.  Basically as things are 
now only about 4000 pages can be written to a single file for print at a time.

Everyone is happy with the way the current system works minus the ability to 
print more then 4000 at a time.  

I've been thinking about the easiest way to resolve this and my first 
thought is to essentially create a loop so that after a word file reaches it 
limit of ~4000 and prints, a second, third, and fourth file is created until 
all the pages have printed.

By doing this would avoid complications with overloading files, buffers, 
etc.  The issue though, and what I'm trying to figure, is it possible to take 
exclusive control of the printer so the various Word files can print without 
other interupting print jobs?

Thanks

date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:54:01 -0700   author:   DoverJ