>Hi,
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>I want to send specific escape sequence to laser printer to activate specific laser check format. These check formats are stored in a card which is already installed in a printer. When I send this sequence from VFP report (form report text box) it doesn't work. Same sequence works fine from DOS EDIT. I tried to send unicode of same sequence but it did not work. I contacted vendor of that card, they suggeted to use Escape API function. I am not sure which API library contains this function and how should I use it. Any Idea? Please suggest.
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>Thanks
>Dimple

I have had a heck of a time trying to do this reliably from the VFP report writer. I can get it to work only with specific printers. For my purposes I create the report to an ASCII file, then send my codes via ???, and finally copy the file to the printer. I assume the your card does special formatting that can't be done in the VFP report writer? Let me know if you have more questions on this, I have wasted dozens of hours in this topic, and would like to prevent others from doing so.

Marcus.