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printing in windows 2000 and XP

rbuserrbuser
edited February 2004 in General
I have an intermittent problem with RB7.02 and Delphi 5.
When a user is printing long forms on a dot matrix printer (22" long) it
will work for about 3 days and then it will stop printing correctly. It
will only print 11" or it will spit out forms with printing nothing. If I
go back in the the printer settings and choose the Custom page and refresh
the driver it will work correctly without changing any of my code or
anything.

Has anyone experienced this is 2000 and XP? Is there a fix ?
Is there something that I can call to reset the printer before i print it?

I am using a Epson LQ2180 printer and a Windows 2000.

Thanks,
Mike

Comments

  • nicociziknicocizik
    edited February 2004
    Hi Mike,

    This is not a known issue with ReportBuilder. When you say that this issue
    occurs after about three days of correct use, it leads me to believe that
    something is either changing in the actual printer settings, or an event is
    being fired to reset the printer settings. Perhaps trace your event code
    and see what the printer settings are when the problem occurs. Be sure
    there are no options on your printer to reset the print values after a
    certain amount of time.

    --
    Best Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com
  • rbuserrbuser
    edited February 2004
    yes I think i narrowed it down to a DOS program that prints out to the LPT1
    and i think that is the DOS program does something to the printer/or printer
    driver and i restart the machine and it is fine. I think it is a DOS
    program so that for your help.
    I will keep you up to date if this isn't the case.

    thanks,
    Mike


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