Fred:
It sounds to me that you have a problem with the particular printer driver
you are using and/or the R:Base Default Font setting for your printer.
Try to change your Windows printer driver to Generic /Text Only. This
should allow you to control the printer from its front panel.
You can also try to change the R:Base Preferences for the Printer Default
Font to either Terminal or Courier. But unless you also change the printer
driver, I have a feeling Windows will take the output (Type filename) and
send it out in a graphic format.
R:Base for Windows is constrained by the way Windows handles printers. So
you'll have to play around with printer settings, but you may never find a
solution that matches the R:Base for DOS printing solution.
Because R:Base for DOS is a DOS program, it can bypass most, if not all, of
the Windows printer controls if you capture the printer port (Windows NT,
2K, and XP are less cooperative with this than Windows 9x and ME). But
since R:Base for Windows is a Windows program, it doesn't have that
capability.
Good luck!
Tony
Anthony Schmidt
President
The Computery Ltd.
One East Main Street
Bay Shore, NY 11706
Voice 631-665-8100
Fax 631-969-5988
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I would print it to a laser printer in landscape on legal paper.
Laser printers print a lot faster than dot matrix printers.
Troy
>===== Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] =====
>I have moved a client using RB 6.1 for dos in a dos box
>to using RB 6.5++ for windows.
>
>They have one report that is printed to a Okidata 395 onto 14" wide
carridge
>green bar.
>The report is between 250 and 350 pages for each run.
>
>To Generate this report to file it take 3-5 minutes.
>Spooling it directly to the printer now take 2-3 hours, and then printing
is
>another 2-3 hours.
>
>It was taking 1-2 hours total to print under the dos version under
windows.
>
>I have tried doing the:
>
>OUT filename
>PRINT report
>OUT screen
>
>Out Printer
>type filename
>OUT screen
>
>The printer is using proportional fonts even though I have manually set it
>UTILITY/DRAFT mode.
>
>I have also changed the fonts to Courier so that it could use mono spaced
>fonts
>
>All I want to do is dump data to paper as fast as possible, I am not real
>particular on the font or print quality. Speed is more import.
>
>Anybody have Ideas??
>
>Thanks,
>
>Fred Antrobus
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>425) 235-7796
>
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