Take a look at the following article on printing to a continuous paper printer...
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1. Layout
For continuous printing (for example a receipt) use Title/Summary and removing the Header/Footer. Set the PrintHeight of each to phDynamic. Layout the DetailBand to print a single line item. Set the margins to 0 or to the smallest that the printer driver will support (some printers have an unprintable area).
With this configuration The Report will generate a Title followed by a variable number of Detail bands that span pages if needed, and then finally print a Summary at the end.
2. Pagination
a. dtPrinter
Some printer drivers have a continuous paper size setting. If not then try setting the paper size to be very small - perhaps the size of the tallest band in the layout. Or try setting the page height to be the size of a detail band. Note that some printer drivers will only accept page sizes within a certain range of paper sizes.
b. dtReportTextFile
With the above layout, the report text file will generate the page breaks properly, however the device will fill up a page with blank lines. You can control the number of lines per page by configuring the CharacterGrid property in the Report.BeforePrint event:
example:
procedure TForm1.ppReport1BeforePrint(Sender: TObject); var lDevice: TppReportTextFileDevice; begin
if (ppReport1.FileDevice <> nil) and (ppReport1.FileDevice is TppReportTextFileDevice)then begin lDevice := TppReportTextFileDevice(ppReport1.FileDevice);
{120 characters per line, 66 lines per page} lDevice.CharacterGrid(120, 66); end;
Comments
Take a look at the following article on printing to a continuous paper
printer...
----------------------------------------------------
Article: Printing to Continuous Paper
----------------------------------------------------
1. Layout
For continuous printing (for example a receipt) use Title/Summary and
removing the Header/Footer. Set the PrintHeight of each to phDynamic. Layout
the DetailBand to print a single line item. Set the margins to 0 or to the
smallest that the printer driver will support (some printers have an
unprintable area).
With this configuration The Report will generate a Title followed by a
variable number of Detail bands that span pages if needed, and then finally
print a Summary at the end.
2. Pagination
a. dtPrinter
Some printer drivers have a continuous paper size setting. If not then try
setting the paper size to be very small - perhaps the size of the tallest
band in the layout. Or try setting the page height to be the size of a
detail band. Note that some printer drivers will only accept page sizes
within a certain range of paper sizes.
b. dtReportTextFile
With the above layout, the report text file will generate the page breaks
properly, however the device will fill up a page with blank lines. You can
control the number of lines per page by configuring the CharacterGrid
property in the Report.BeforePrint event:
example:
procedure TForm1.ppReport1BeforePrint(Sender: TObject);
var
lDevice: TppReportTextFileDevice;
begin
if (ppReport1.FileDevice <> nil) and (ppReport1.FileDevice is
TppReportTextFileDevice)then
begin
lDevice := TppReportTextFileDevice(ppReport1.FileDevice);
{120 characters per line, 66 lines per page}
lDevice.CharacterGrid(120, 66);
end;
end;
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Regards,
Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com
Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com