>>>>Hi all again,
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>>>>We have a client that when he prints from our application, the reports spit out garbage, but only in place of the data fields. The labels remain readable. I checked the tables, and the data is fine. I try previewing the report, and that is fine. But when we send it to the printer, the data fields are scammbled. They have reinstalled the printer drivers several times, but that didn't help.
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>>>>Does anyone have any ideas what might cause this?
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>>>>Thanks in advance.
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>>>Is this a report? Do you have the printer settings saved with the report? If you do, the report may have imbedded codes for wahtever printer was in use when the report was designed, and those codes don't work for your printer. Make sure you do not have the printer settings saved.
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>>thanks for the tip. The printer settings are not being saved.
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>I once had a similar problem with an HP printer.
>What helped was changing the printer driver.

It is a HP 3050. I think it is a PCL 5 or 6. The client can not confirm this, but the PC see it as a PCL 5. Could it be actually a PCL 6, but windows XP can not indentify it as one?