>>Design the report under the Generic/Text Only driver, use only monospaced fonts, and make all the printers default to the same native font like Draft 10cpi. Your output must be monospaced, at a fixed number of lines/page, and you have to make sure that every printer has the generic driver installed. it makes for pretty bland, but quick, reports.
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>All I wanna print is text, so the Generic Text only would work. And it worked fine until I hit custom sized reports, which, it seems like, the generic printer does support. It always assumes a page size of 8.5X11. My option now is to move up the least common denominator driver a little bit so the custom sized reports are supported.
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>>The same largely applies to dot matrix printers - most DMPs can be set to act like an ancient Epson FX-80 or IBM ProPrinter; it may take a bit of playing with the configuration, but it can generally be done. Epsons, Panasonics, IBMs - at some level can be made to function in a backwards compatible mode.
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>So I am thinking about using the Epson FX-80 or the IBM ProPrinter driver. But does it make a difference which one I pick? Or they both compatible with most of the printers ? Or if one printer is compatible with Epson FX-80, does it mean it is not compatible with IBM Proprinter.
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There are minor difference between the two; check the printer manuals and use the one that both printer say they will emulate.