>>I've tried to create a report form for sending data to a receipt printer, but I can't get rid of the form feed. I need to find a way to print these things besides going straight out the port. Any ideas?
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>Hi Paul,
>There is one 'solution' ... (to be continued)
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>PRINTER DRIVER: GENERIC/TEXT ONLY
>PAPER SIZE : LEDGER 17 or TABLOID
>- NO PAGE BRAKE
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>And then build frx with exactly NOTHING in the page header&footer
>If you need (you will need!) headings&totals - use report group
>header&footer bands respectively. (I guess grouped by InvoiceNo)
>This way you will avoid uncontrolled form feed's, and printing
>will stop after group footer is all printed out.
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>(Continued)
>... which is not exactly solution!
>This is desperate measure to get things done untill you rich better one!
>I hope this will help

That's pretty much what we are doing, although I didn't realize the no header/footer part. We accomplished that by accident. Basically, we used to just send the data straight out the port, but to fix various problems such as multiple people printing to the same printer at the same time, and of course trying to actually hit the printer port under Windows NT, we are just sending it to an alt file, and then pulling the alt file into a temp database and printing a report which just has one field to display each line. We managed to get it working using a generic text only driver.

It isn't very elegant, but it gets the job done!

Thanks for the tip,
Paul