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Printing problem with ATM-network card
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14/11/2000 06:32:11
 
 
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Installation, Setup and Configuration
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00440105
Message ID:
00441494
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>>>>My customer has printing problems after installing ATM-network card. Printing to network queue will show error 1958: "Error loading printer driver".
>>>>
>>>>FoxPro 5.0 Help file tells me that "An internal call to the LoadLibrary( ) function has failed. Visual FoxPro calls this function through either PRTINFO( ) or SET PRINTER TO.."
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>>>>I use REPORT FORM command and printing to local printer has no problems.
>>>>
>>>>Any help?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>Kari
>>>
>>>Is "ATM" a brand of Ethernet network card, or is it truly an Asynchronous Transfer Mode adapter? If the latter, these are rarely seen on workstations. You need to examine the setup of the card in the computer. Among other things, NetBIOS needs to be enabled so that VFP (and a lot of other Windows apps, for that matter) can talk to other machines/shares/queues. I don't know how you would do that with ATM; I understand there is a concept called "LAN Emulation" (LANE) that may come into play here.
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>>>Is the problem limited to VFP, or can you print to the queue from other Windows applications?
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>>Thanks! I'll ask them to test these tips.
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>>They said it really is a true ATM-card and every other software (Word,Excel..) prints without errors.
>>
>>-Kari
>
>Is the printer driver in question for an HP printer? There are known bugs with many of their drivers. One solution is to use a compatible driver, written by Microsoft, from your OS CD.

Thanks again! The printer is Lexmark and the driver should be the latest available. My customer has a very large net so it could be some kind of timeout problem (and because it works fine without queue).

I just found out how to change printer queue timeout setting. Maybe it will help.

- Kari
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