>I need to create a receipt for a star sp300 receipt printer. Its one of those narrow 40 column printers. Is it best to create an frx or should I just ouput the receipt line by line. I'm wondering if I will run into paper advancing problems since the receipts mary vary in length if I use an frx. Thanks for all your help.
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I'd do it line-by-line, or better, write/buy a control or .DLL that bypasses the Windows print environment completely, so that issues such as unexpected spooler or printer state or position condition won't be given - if you really require detailed, precise behavior, stay out of the Windows GDI printer services. Several standard Windows print behaviors such as spooling and Windows' desire to make the printer go to a known, standard state between jobs, which normally will force the printer to reset and try to go to the top of the next page, probably not what you need.