John,

I use one of those little label printers to print the occasional label. I was told it was "difficult to configure" (the previous one must have been) but I attached and installed it myself, and I'm no expert. I configured the label format and printed landscape. Very nice and easy.

Yes, the rolls of labels may be more expensive, but compare to sheets of wasted labels... or typing them individually.

If you want to send me email, I'll let you know what brand of label printer we have when I'm at work tomorrow.

Mailto:cindy.winegarden@duke.edu


>We are preparing to re-write a user tracking program for our company and one of the features we currently in our DOS program is the ability to print a mailing label for a user if we need to send them something. Any suggestions on how to accomplish this with VFP???
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>Of course, the DOS program used the good old ? to print the label information and then sent just enough line feeds to set itself to the next label. The labels were printed on a dot matrix printer using continuous feed 1 X 3.5 inch labels.
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>We've checked into the dedicated label printers (those little do hicky things), but they are very complicated to configure and the labels are much more expensive.
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>Any ideas would be appreciated.
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>Regards, John