Al,

I know this is a year old thread, but I was wondering if you ever got a solution that worked, because I've been having a similar problem.

Mine is also a 7" form. In searching the archives, I found one of Sergies responses where he says the paper size in the Expr field of the .frx should be 256 for a custom form. I checked mine and it had a different number so I changed it to 256 and ran the form...it came out perfect.

My question is why would the number be wrong in the first place if when I initially designed the form, I had the custom form selected as the default?

Anyone got any ideas?

Dale S.



>I'm printing to a custom form 7" long using an Okidata ML520 printer in IBM mode. These are continuous, tractor-fed forms. I've set up a custom form length in the print server for this printer. When I print the report, everything works fine except the form length is very slightly off. If the form length is set to 7.00 inches it seems to print about 7.006 inches, so the print goes slightly lower each form until it's completely out of whack. If I set the form length to 6.99 inches, the printing goes slightly higher each form until it's out of whack again. For some reason this printer refuses to print a form exactly 7.00 inches long (measured).
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>I tried switching to metric measurements for finer control (0.01cm vs. 0.01") but that didn't work. Form length of 17.78 cm is too long, 17.77 cm is too short.
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>Default measurement system for this computer is US (imperial) units.
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>The computer being used replaced a former W95 box, where the exact same report to the exact same physical printer printed correctly.
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>Ideas, anyone?