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>>Have you setup the generic printer driver (and the label forms as well) to work with that printer? You mentioned notepad, is this to say that Wordpad doesn't?
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>Have not found much to setup. From the notepad I have to take out the margins and the title and footer. But that is to be expected.
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>The strange thing is that the same file, the one saved though notepad, generates errors in the printer. Could it be that there are charaters added, I'm sure the label printer is very sensitive to that. It is either that or the printer's software is incapable of sustaining the W95 printing scheme, but then how come it does work under notepad.
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>I'll try wordpad, now.
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>Thank you for bothering.
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>Marc

If you've been through the Generic Setup dialog and it doesn't work, then I'd guess that this can't be done *directly* from VFP. From the codes you've posted elsewheres on this thread, it looks similar to the sequences I've seen associated with a line printer.

The only suggestion that might work involves a file available in the download section ("Send raw files to print queue" - Win32 API and...). What you'd have to do is create a text file on the drive, and try to send that using this file to the printer.

Old line printers, however, are tricky beasts to deal with. We have some around here. They're the size of a large barbeque grill and slow. I wrote a program to print labels to one in QuickBASIC (about 8 years ago). Recently I had to drop supporting it. One, I didn't have direct access to one for testing. Two, I no longer had a 5.25 floppy capable of writing in double density (so it could be loaded on a PC-XT). Three, I didn't have any of the manuals.