>>>Hi Raz.
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>>>>Does someone know a work around to speedup the print process on a dotmatrix printer.
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>>>"Fast printing on dot matrix" and "using Windows driver" are an oxymoron <g>. I use the Generic/Text Only driver for dot matrix printers, which then print in their native fonts (usually Courier or some proportional font).
>>>
>>>Doug
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>>PMFJI here, Doug, but are those native fonts available without installing a "windows driver"? In my experience, they are unavailable or just don't show in the Report Writer without installing the proper driver.
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>Usually there are two ways to get at 'em:
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>- program the printer through its own control panel, setting its "default" font (at power-up/reset) to something other than the usual default, Courier 10
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>- pre-pending the appropriate control codes to a generated .PRN file, or inserting the codes verbatim near the top of the .FRX
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>In neither case are you going to get WYSIWYG in the Report Writer.

Thanks Al. Neither of those methods is very appealing to me :-) I work strictly with Oki printers, and good (?) drivers are available that print fast and give "reasonable" WYSIWYG. I just like the ease of using the native fonts in the designer, without caring about what the user has done on the printer control panel.