Generic Text Printer

[vishnu...@gmail.com]

hi
I wanted to print my REPORTS in Dotmatrix Text Printer for Fast
Printing.. I had used with Generic Text Printer , but in it I am geting
problem of page length as well as font size.. it will print ********
instead of numerical value. is there any other way to do this work ? I
am using same report for Laser Printer also where it will print
perfactly. Is there any way to change font size while printing through
Generic Text Printer

Vishnu

[John Boy]

The ****** printed in numeric fields could be due to under size of field in
report especially if you have formatted the report for a specific laser
printer. Try making field bigger. It's probably best to format the whole
report in the default font of the matrix printer in use.

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[@lindstromminnesotausa Craig Roberts]

And there's always been problems with adjusting for the number of lines on a
page, which is probably the problem.

If I remember, printing to a text printer in DOS takes 66 lines in the page,
but FoxPro allocates some for the page break, so I usually configured my DOS
reports to use 64 lines.

Now if you print to the laser printer with a font that results in 66 lines
of text, directing that report to the text printer won't help - too many
lines, regardless of 10 or 12 cpi.

So just cut the numbers and the report should work on both printers, other
things (line length, for instance) being OK.

Good luck.

Craig Roberts

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