>I created an application that prints thousands of reports per day and for some reason they print extremely slow.. that is... i will have hundreds if not thousands of spool files and yet the printer will only print 6 or seven pages then it pauses 2 to 3 minutes then print another 6 or 7 pages...
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>the reason i have so many reports is because each report packet gets 3 distinctly different reports, so i have to run them once each for each "customer"
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>i removed all the lines and bitmaps from the reports so that all that is left is the data but it still prints dog slow...
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>i have vfp 6.0 and have updated to service pack 5 running on win98, any thoughts?
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>thanks!
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>Jim Garner
What sort of printer do you use? If you use, e.g., an Epson dot-matrix printer, you should basically print in text mode. Sending "Courier" or "Courier New" font to the printer will be interpreted and printer by the printer as graphics, and therefore be slow.
Try sending a text to the printer with "???", or download my text-report class, and see the difference.
Hilmar.
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