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Form Length Problem
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From
29/10/2004 16:43:32
 
 
To
28/10/2004 19:44:12
Neil Mc Donald
Cencom Systems P/L
The Sun, Australia
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 5
OS:
Windows 2000 SP3
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00954391
Message ID:
00955953
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16
Thanks, I'll get them to try W2K SP4. I've already tried all possible combinations of printer drivers and emulations supported by the printer.

UPDATE - this computer was already running W2K SP4, so that wasn't the issue.

>Hi,
>Two things to try.
>1. Upgrade to SP4 Win2k, there are some spooler problems fixed in SP4.
>2. Download the updated driver from OKI, the Win2K drivers do have problems, also play with the different emulations, some work some don't. Oki have tried to optimise some emulations, but they don't always work.
>
>
>>I'm printing to a custom form 7" long using an Okidata ML520 printer in IBM mode. These are continuous, tractor-fed forms. I've set up a custom form length in the print server for this printer. When I print the report, everything works fine except the form length is very slightly off. If the form length is set to 7.00 inches it seems to print about 7.006 inches, so the print goes slightly lower each form until it's completely out of whack. If I set the form length to 6.99 inches, the printing goes slightly higher each form until it's out of whack again. For some reason this printer refuses to print a form exactly 7.00 inches long (measured).
>>
>>I tried switching to metric measurements for finer control (0.01cm vs. 0.01") but that didn't work. Form length of 17.78 cm is too long, 17.77 cm is too short.
>>
>>Default measurement system for this computer is US (imperial) units.
>>
>>The computer being used replaced a former W95 box, where the exact same report to the exact same physical printer printed correctly.
>>
>>Ideas, anyone?
Regards. Al

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