Re: XP & Generic Printing
From: Gunther Gloop (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 02/20/04
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Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 13:00:07 -0000
Thanks Ravi,
I should have posted my fix earlier but didn't.
The problem was the way I was referring to the printers.
I was selecting the printer(s) to print-to in a setup screen by selecting
them from a list. Then before printing I was doing...
set printer to name &cprinter
This macro substitution was causing the problem due to the longfilename in
the way XP refers to the printer ie. \\<server>\myprinter
I changed this to...
set printer to name (cprinter)
...and my problem was solved.
It wasn't a problem with the driver per se, but with the fact that my app
wasn't _switching_ drivers when it was told. That would've been obvious if
it was printing to 2 computers instead of 2 drivers on 1 printer, but it was
almost impossible to spot on 1 printer.
Actually I had come across this and solved it in other apps, but I had
thought I fixed it in all my apps so hadn't even considered it as the
problem. Silly me.
-Kevin.
Ravi Krishnan wrote:
> kevin,
>
> what about using a dosprint routine available at -
>
> http://www.victorespina.coolfreepages.com/infoproducto.php?id=38&lang=ENU
>
> search for dosprint at universal thread downloads
>
> regards
>
> ravi
>
>
> "Gunther Gloop" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
> news:c0rd1i$1aj9ri$1@ID-173227.news.uni-berlin.de...
>> Rick Bean wrote:
>>> Gunther,
>>> Are you sure that you are still using a Generic/Text Only printer
>>> driver?
>>>
>>> Do you remove the printer specific report information in your report
>>> files? (Clear TAG and TAG2 in the first record of the .FRX?)
>>>
>>
>> Yes. I should've added its nothing to do with the TAG and TAG2
>> fields. When printing to the generic driver it is just via the "?"
>> commands. I'm not printing to that driver using the report designer.
>>
>> -Kevin.
>>
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