Karen
Since you are using RBDos have you tried printing the report to a file and
then printing out the file. With RBDos this was a faster solution for
printing large reports.
OUT FileName
PRINT ReportName......
OUT TERMINAL
OUT PRINTER
TYEP FileName
OUT TERMINAL
Buddy
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Johansen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 4:29 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Slow printing - what's ECP?
Hi,
ECP is an enhanced communication protocol between you computer hardware and
the printer. It requires an IEEE cable and your computer bio must support
it. it can also allow for DMA setup to talk for faster commnunications with
the printer.
ECP help in communication but that is where there the relationship to
RAW/EMF formats.
the RAW format is less overhead than EMF
Hope this helps
Ben Johansen - http://www.pcforge.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of tellef
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 12:32 PM
To: All
Subject: Slow printing - what's ECP?
A client just bought a dandy new 24ppm printer and is
thrilled with the speed. But on one print job (printing
about 800 client statements one at a time, RBWin) said
the speed seems to be about half. Her network guy kept
the same printer driver of the older model (same make)
that it replaced; wanted to make sure nothing screwed up
for RBDos. He said that if he installed the new driver,
then he could set the 'spool data format' to ECP instead
of EMF and that it would be faster.
Anyone heard of ECP and whether that would be true?
Another thought -- since it is printing one at a time, does
the timeout setting affect the time it waits between
printing each page? Would this be a network timeout (W2K)
or the printer's timeout? In the RBWin program, it should
be no more than a second between printing each report.
Thanks!
Karen
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