>>A client just recently upgraded from Windows 98SE to newer machines running Windows 2000, still running our legacy 2.6 DOS app.
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>>They have 3 different printers and 2 of the printers are showing some extra characters on the printouts, causing some misalignments. Additionally, the one of the printouts that prints a vertical line from the 'extended character set' is printing instead a garbage character instead of the vertical line. This is on a Panasonic KX-P2124 dot matrix. I had them load Ansi.sys in the config.nt, but that didn't seem to solve the problem.
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>>Anyone have any ideas (I know... upgrade them to VFP8... we're working on it!!).
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>>Thanks,
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>>Mike Ettel
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>Mike,
>As I remember Dot matrix printers either use IBM or Esc-P sequence to define bold, pitch etc. Could you check if all those printers are using the same set.
>If my memory serving right printers.dbf should have definitions for IBM and Epson Esc-P set.
>Cetin

Cetin,

Thanks for the reply. Yes, we have been using Printers.dbf for proper driver ESC codes and it has worked fine in the past on W98SE for the various printers. However, now that we are on Win2k, we are not getting the extended character set on the Panasonic dot matrix, and on the HP Office Jet printer, we are now getting some extra characters (control codes) printing out for some reason. Also, it is not consistently shifting into condensed print on some printouts.

Very puzzling!

Mike