>>I am using an application that was made in VFP 5.
>>Randomly I am having shipping labels going to a dot matrix printer loose vertical alignment.
>>Packing List going to a dot matrix printer either become so large that only the first 6 characters and first 4 lines will
>>fit on an 8.5x11or so small it wil fix the 8.5x11 information in a box 3x4 in the upper left corner.
>>Save problem with purhcase orders to a dot matrix printer.
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>>Job Ticket which are several pages have the complete page print on the first line of the sheet
>> as if all line feeds are being removed. Once it starts it will do it on all pages. Repirnt the job ticket
>>and the it doesn't happen the 2nd time. These go to either HP5 Laser Printers or a Toshiba Copier
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>>All printing is done to network queues then sent to printers Novell 5 SP 3A.
>>Over Enhanced CAT 5 with 3Com Super Stack II 3300 switches, 3com nics, latest
>>drivers to the HP 5s and Windows 98 Work Stations with Service pack applied.
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>>Running Inoculan as virus checker and server and workstations.
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>>Any thoughts? Does VFP5 have printing issues other that Exception 10H?
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>The dot matrix issues sound like they could be caused by a bad printer cable. Another problem could be a bad printer driver. On the HP problem, try reinstalling the printer driver. If that doesn't work, send me the report and any cursors need to run it (after the conference next week--please don't send them before that because I'll be using a dial-up connection from a hotel). I have an HP5 printer and I can try running under both VFP5 and 6 to see if VFP5 is the problem.

Thanks but I don't have access to the reports, they are embedded in the app.
The job ticket reports use the Text Merge feature only very expanded features.
I have installed the latest HP Drivers but that did not change the results.
I have 3 Dot Matrix printers. 2 just started the enlarge and shrunk printing.
The other I use for labels and it has the vertical alignment problem but doing an
alignment test seems to solve that problem.
Seems unlikely but possible that 2 printer cables fail at the same time but it's a cheep fix.

The laser printers are on a HP Jet Direct cards but I did a firmware upgrade a few months ago and that didn't change anything either.

Any other ideas?