Karen - If these reports don't have to have Windows fonts or images, you can still output the reports to a file and then TYPE or COPY the file to the printer (the old DOS way).
Here is some code I have that prints a specified # of labels to a dot-matrix printer and just does the required # of line feeds to get the label to the appropriate place to rip off the printer - it does NOT do the standard Windows page formfeed. This command uses a number of WRITE statements, but you could also print a report to a file then TYPE it to the printer. --LblPrint.cmd Prints Patient Labels 9/20/01 SBA SET VAR xNumLabels INTEGER = 21 SELECT (NLAST&NLASTSUFFIX+','&NFIRST&MI),DOB,RACE,SEX,ZIPCODE,+ (IFEQ(HouseNum,NULL,Address,((CTXT(HouseNum))&Direction&Street&StType&AptNum ))) + INTO XNAME X1,XDOB X1,XRACE X1,XSEX X1,XZIPCODE X1,XADDR X1 + FROM PATIENT WHERE ID = .VID SET V XLabelCnt INTEGER = 1 OUTPUT LPT2: WHILE XLabelCnt < .xNumLabels THEN WRITE .XNAME WRITE .XDOB,.XRACE,.XSEX,.VID,'Site -',.gSite WRITE .#DATE,' ',.Xzipcode,' ',.vnum WRITE .Xaddr WRITE ' ' WRITE ' ' SET VAR XLabelCnt = (.XLabelCnt+1) ENDWHILE WRITE ' ' WRITE ' ' WRITE ' ' WRITE ' ' WRITE ' ' WRITE ' ' WRITE ' ' WRITE ' ' WRITE ' ' WRITE ' ' WRITE ' ' WRITE ' ' OUTPUT SCREEN CLEAR VAR X% RETURN Have fun! Sami ----------------------------------------------------------- Sami Aaron Software Management Specialists 19312 W 63rd Terr Shawnee KS 66218 913-915-1971 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.softwaremgmt.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "tellef" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 7:50 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Printing on multi-part Hallelujah, a client on 3.1 wants to upgrade to RBWin! It is a church, a small client, so they are interested in doing it for as little money as possible. It's a simple app, but they have 4 reports that are printed on various sizes of multi-part dot matrix forms, one of which is a tiny index-card sized form. I remember several years ago totally giving up on printing odd-size DM forms from Windows; luckily that client had the money to go to laser forms and their forms were all regular size anyway. Did I mention this is a church? There's no way they'll change the forms that they've been using since, well, since 'their leader' was born! So I'm just looking for assurance that (in 6.5++) that I will be able to print to the dot matrix on these funky-sized multipart forms. God bless! Karen
