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Visual FoxPro
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Reports & Report designer
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00127585
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>I just hooked up a receipt printer for the obvious reason. (FWIW, the printer is an Epson TM-U200 series).
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>What I would like to know is, am I now going to have to *hand code* all output to this type of printer? There are no Win95 drivers for it. I have set it up as a Generic text printer connected to Com2 and defined a custom paper size of 3 inches with continuous feed [no page break].
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>The report designer is good for a test, but leaves MUCH to be desired. You can read everything, but it scrolls about 12 inches too much paper at the end. And does not auto-cut the paper.
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>Anyone with experience in this? Hints? Tips? Traps?
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>TIA!

FWIW, I ended up hand-coding for a similar problem. We NEVER got the pagebreak correct for (ours was 3.5 in.), although we tried adding printer codes to the Report INIT() method and even to the first page code.

Sorry,
Barbara
Barbara Paltiel, Paltiel Inc.
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