Mike, Of course we care!
You now have total control, as long as you don't have to print one label at a time. If you did, a thermal label printer utilizing a windows driver would be another solution. Dennis McGrath [email protected] [email protected] On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Michael J. Sinclair <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi All, > > Just in case anybody cares, I did figure out about 99% of the problem. If > you have a client that needs to use the generic text only driver, then you > might want to read this...otherwise, DELETE! > > The generic Text only driver works very well with a dot matrix printer > using RBase 9.1. It is much faster than using the native Panasonic KX-P1150 > driver. It also understands printer control codes. But as far as page > length is concerned, that was a nightmare. In the end, all I had to do was > create a new form under Server Properties and assign it the desired length, > and assign the form to the printer. If found this PDF file which really > helped... > > http://www.telpar.com/files/drivers_support/tech_bulletins/GenericTextOnlyPrinterWithoutFormFeed.pdf > > However, in the end, I did have to give up. My paper documents are exactly > 4 and 3/16 inches in height plus the perforation. That works out perfectly > on rbase version 6.5 using 8 lines per inch. But there was no way for me to > get the generic text only driver to accept the printer control codes I > needed, such as set page length to n lines. I tried playing with page > length in 0.01 mm increments, but the printer driver would round up or > down. Each time I would print a perscription, the perforations moved a > little farther away from the cut off bar which means that my staff would > have to hand adjust the postion of the perscriptions after each run. That > would never happen. I was able to make it work with the native printer > driver, but it was using up a lot of ink on the ribbon and it was very > slow...pretty...but way too slow. > > The good news is, after spending weeks trying to figure it out, I went to > plan B. I created a label on an 8.5 x 11 inch sheet of paper that prints 4 > perscriptions per page, complete with graphics, beautiful fonts, etc. And > it only took about 20 minutes!! > > Anybody wanna buy a very used Panasonic dot matrix printer? (just > kidding....) > > Thank you again for your help. > > Mike > > >
