wow, interesting. maybe it's a vfp8 thing. i've tried and tested (with about 50 users) to all kind of different printers, including the microline, havn't had a problem.

another thing you could try is to print to asci (little secret - you can then create your own preview with all kind of nice thingis) and then copy the asci file to the printer, maybe that will work?!


>Thanks Gunnar, but I just tried it. I created a report from scratch in FPD26 and did NOT save the environment. Then I left the report in FPD26 format and called it from within VFP8 and the Okidata Microline 320 switched from Draft mode to NLQ mode when it printed. There were no graphics on the report just simple text and fields.
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>Tracy
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>>Hello Tracy.
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>>I am using Vfp6 Sp5. what i do, and it works great, i create the report in fox 2.5 DOS, and then report form from vfp6. it prints dirrectly to the printer, bypassing windows spooler, very fast (just like it used to be in the dos days).
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>>ofcourse you can not have graphics in the report.
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>>>VFP8 SP1
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>>>There have been many threads on this issue as well as report to ascii and printing reports using ?? and ??? and @...say etc. Pardon me for creating another one!
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>>>We are in the process of switching all of our ??? and @...say reports over to VFP reports still and have run into some issues with customers who use OKIDATA 320 Microline printers and OKIDATA 320 Turbos. The reports print fine but they print extremely slow because all of the VFP reports print in graphics mode on the Okidatas. We have tried every Okidata as well as every Windows printer driver. We have also tried REPORT FORM TO ascii and there seems to be a problem with a loss of data and truncated fields. We have tried using a generic/text printer driver and it doesn't always align the fields correctly on the form. Modifying the reports for that driver is out of the question because many of our customers use the HP laserjets or GDI printers as well. Right now we have duplicate copies of the same report for different printers and it is a bear to maintain when we have so many reports. We have specific forms that are controlled by state guidelines and since our software is used
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>>>all 50 states we have potentially nearly a thousand reports to eventually support. Our goal (having hundreds of reports to maintain and hundreds of customers) is to have only one copy of each report in vfp format created using the report generator but to somehow allow it to print in draft mode on the Okidatas so that they print faster for those customers and preventing the need for maintaining duplicate copies of the same reports for different printers. Our reports tend to change on an annual basis (or more frequently) so we do not want to have to modify duplicates of all reports on a regular basis.
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>>>Any ideas?
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>>>TIA,
>>>Tracy