Mike, On the odd size forms, did you try custom label instead of report?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Sinclair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 6:15 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Enhancement request for Printer Control Codes in Rbase 7.6 > Hi all! > > I am still working on getting Printer Control Codes to work. I have confirmed > that they are not supported in Ver 7.6. I have submitted a request for an > enhancement to the knock your socks off team! > > The reason for the request is because of the need to print on tractor feed > forms. There are times when the end user is required to fill out original > forms where laser forms are not available. > An example would be a doctor's office where the doctor wants to have Rbase > print perscriptions. The perscriptions are usually not 8.5" x 11", instead > they are more like 4" wide x 5" in height. > Finding a laser printer that would handle such an odd size piece of paper one > at a time would be difficult. Printing the perscriptions on 8.5" x 11" paper > would be awkward and possibly subject to > abuse (duplication via a copy machine). > > Also, the original tractor feed forms frequently require filling in data at > the top edge of the form, which is above the area where the print head sits > at rest. In order to avoid wasting the first form, the user would need back > up the form to line up the top of the form with the top of the print head > which would be pretty inconvenient. The other choice would be to roll up the > forms on the printer and waste the the first form by leaving it blank (wastes > paper and is not good for the environment or trees!). > > Likewise, some tractor feed forms are not designed very well. They have > fields that are not horizontally lined up. In those cases, you need to be > able to move the form up and down by fractions of a line to get the data to > print in exactly the correct location. Failure to do so would not only look > sloppy, but it might cause the recipient of a from using an OCR program to > fail to get the data properly. > > I am actively trying some of the suggestions that came from this awesome > support group. I really appreciate your help. I will report back if I come up > with something that works. > > Mike > >> > > >
