>I have this application where the printing of labels drives everything. More importantly the time it takes to print the labels is usually the tent pole in the time it takes for the days work to get completed. High speed labrels are a must. We are using an Okidata ML321 Turbo label printer to do the job. I have donwloaded several of Okidata's drivers to get the fonts that the high speed modes require. That is fine. I can now drive the labels at high speeds. However the data from the labels will sometimes collapse down a few lines and overwrite another line on the label. I am using the label maker to assign the types of fonts that the label will use. Then I use the printer to set the speed at which it prints. I am assuming that this must be a printer driver problem and am basically giving up. But I want to see if anyone has any suggestions besides commanding the printer directly via the ??? commands. And if I do use the ??? command can someone please tell me what I have to do to start
>the job and end the job via control characters. Is that enough?

Are you using Visual Fox? If so you have just answered my questions about upgrading!

From fox 2.6 I print out 2000+ labels to a Panasonic dot matrix printer and every so often they skip a line and recover the position abit later. Looks messy. To get over memory problems I have been sending each label as an individual print job but with a newer panasonic I'm hoping to avoid needing to do this. Between each print job I had a wait window which spaced the jobs out but I would manually clear the ww's every so often, if I clicked too quickly the computer would "beep" at me and there is a clear link between those "beeps" and the dodgy labels.

Could this be your problem?
- Sarah