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28/10/2004 15:49:23
Al Doman (Online)
M3 Enterprises Inc.
North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 5
OS:
Windows 2000 SP3
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00954391
Message ID:
00955620
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Hi Al,

It seems like a printer driver problem to me. Did you try to use some other driver?

>Thanks, Sergey. I had a go at adapting the CopyTo() function from Ed Rauh's ClsHeap class but that function seems to rely on his method of heap allocation/tracking which is not trivial to adapt to your code.
>
>I ended up making a VFP7 executable, which worked fine for the test. However, it didn't solve the problem. If I specified a form exactly 7.0000 inches long, the Oki 520 printer advances slightly more than 7 inches for each form. If I specify anything less - even 6.9999 inches, the printer advances slightly less than 7 inches per form. In each case the data printed on the pre-printed forms gets significantly misaligned after only 7 or 8 forms.
>
>I tried literally everything to fix this. The printer supports 3 emulations - IBM ProPrinter III, Epson FX-80, and native Oki ML. I downloaded and installed drivers for each emulation and set the printer emulation appropriately. I tried all available graphics resolutions for each driver. Nothing worked.
>
>Interestingly, the user running these reports had a W95 box last year, which worked fine. It's her "new" W2K box with the problems. As it happens, the company still has an old W95c box working as a print server. I set up the user's ML 520 to be shared on the network, installed the IBM-emulation W95 driver on the old box and tested. Worked perfectly the first time.
>
>So, the problem is "worked around" for this year, but not solved.
--sb--
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