Dan Covill wrote:
One more thing on this:
The important part of making this work is to make absolutely sure that
Windows doesn't get its filthy hands on the output. The Okidatas will
happily print whatever comes over the cable, whether you programmed it
or the Windows drivers added it
I totally agree Dan. Because I have written several applications for
dot matrix printers, I am getting more requests. There are a lot of
service companies that want printed invoices on two or three part paper.
This little class is really appreciated.
Jeff
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Jeff Johnson
Thanks Dan! It works great. I am now printing invoices with no blank
pages. Only one little problem left; a blank page prints on the default
printer.
I have tried many things but can't see why it is happening. It happens
when I start the second invoice job and when it exits the
SET PRINTER TO (p_file)
SET DEVICE TO printer
SET CONSOLE off
SET PRINTER ON
IF print_ok
IF PCOUNT() 2
DO (printprog)
ELSE
DO (printprog) with tuparm
ENDIF
ENDIF
print_ok = pr_eject()
SET DEVICE TO SCREEN
SET PRINT off
SET CONSOLE on
SET PRINTER TO
Then I do
I knew I put those SET CONSOLE commands in there for some reason!
(IOW, I had the same problem(s), and kind of lost track of just which
command in which sequence solved which problem!)
Glad you have success, Jeff
Dan
On 06/06/13 12:44 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
SET PRINTER TO (p_file)
One more thing on this:
I was looking for a document I wrote several years ago on this topic -
i.e., printing to a DOS (parallel) printer from Windows.
The important part of making this work is to make absolutely sure that
Windows doesn't get its filthy hands on the output. The Okidatas
They printed fine even tho you didn't send the control characters? Are they
perhaps unneeded?
Michael Oke, II
oke...@gmail.com
661-349-6221
On Jun 4, 2013, at 10:20 AM, Jeff Johnson j...@san-dc.com wrote:
I have been printing carbonless forms using VFP for some time. The problem I
Michael: The control character sent with the ??? is to put the printer
in letter quality mode. Without it it does not print properly. The code
has to be sent with a ??? and not an @say. What I want to do is
suppress the blank pages but still send the code.
Thanks,
Jeff
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Can you put a function call in the report that all it does is issue the
proper ??? command, so that code is part of the report output, instead of a
separate print job?
Fred
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Jeff Johnson j...@san-dc.com wrote:
Michael: The control character sent with the ???
, Jeff Johnson wrote:
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 11:36:15 -0700
From: Jeff Johnson
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
cc:
Subject: Re: Dot Matrix Printing from VFP
Michael: The control character sent with the ??? is to put the printer
in letter quality mode. Without it it does not print properly. The code
has
Can you re-direct to another printer via the TO NAME clause?
--Mike
On 6/4/2013 2:36 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
Michael: The control character sent with the ??? is to put the printer
in letter quality mode. Without it it does not print properly. The code
has to be sent with a ??? and not an
Fred: I am using a prg with @says, not an frx. I failed miserably
using frx's on dot matrix printers and I have had good luck with this
method.
Jeff
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On 06/04/2013 11:57 AM, Fred Taylor
Jun 2013 11:36:15 -0700
From: Jeff Johnson
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
cc:
Subject: Re: Dot Matrix Printing from VFP
Michael: The control character sent with the ??? is to put the printer
in letter quality mode. Without it it does not print properly. The code
has to be sent with a ??? and not an @say
As a foxil (still working sometimes with DOS !), I see a problem using ??? and a
report at the same time because you can't be sure of what VFP/windows sends to
the printer when it initializes the report printout (you can send your NLQ
command and then VFP sends the DRAFT command) :
wether you
On Tuesday, June 04, 2013 3:25 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 12:25:44 -0700
From: Jeff Johnson
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
cc:
Subject: Re: Dot Matrix Printing from VFP
Without the ??? the report does not format correctly. It *IS* the ???
that causes the blank page though.
Jeff
+ 1 for idea #3...
Mike C
Original Message
Subject: Re: Dot Matrix Printing from VFP
From: Joe Yoder j...@wheypower.com
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Date: 6/4/2013 3:03 PM
Jeff,
Sounds like VFP or Windows is sending an initialization sequence to the
printer that overwrites what
Jeff:
My remaining client has two Okidatas, which print three different forms,
and have been for many years. (The form printing uses @...say to print.)
Our problems began when one of the OkiDatas became a network printer,
using some kind of dongle, so forms could be printed from two
BTW, I am using a generic text print driver.
Jeff
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j...@san-dc.com
(623) 582-0323
www.san-dc.com
www.arelationshipmanager.com
On 06/04/2013 01:08 PM, Mike Copeland wrote:
+ 1 for idea #3...
Mike C
Original Message
Subject: Re: Dot Matrix
Dan: The whole problem is because these invoices print letter quality
bold and wide in the heading. Can your print class do that by sending
the print codes before the text?
Jeff
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(623) 582-0323
www.san-dc.com
www.arelationshipmanager.com
On
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Jeff Johnson j...@san-dc.com wrote:
Dan: The whole problem is because these invoices print letter quality bold
and wide in the heading. Can your print class do that by sending the print
codes before the text?
Just grasping at straws here
But are you send
Can you put the initialization code in there rather than in VFP? - Joe
On Tuesday, June 04, 2013 5:31 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:31:21 -0700
From: Jeff Johnson
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
cc:
Subject: Re: Dot Matrix Printing from VFP
BTW, I am using a generic text print
:31 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:31:21 -0700
From: Jeff Johnson
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
cc:
Subject: Re: Dot Matrix Printing from VFP
BTW, I am using a generic text print driver.
Jeff
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Jeff Johnson
j...@san-dc.com
(623) 582-0323
www.san-dc.com
On 06/04/13 02:33 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
Dan: The whole problem is because these invoices print letter quality
bold and wide in the heading. Can your print class do that by sending
the print codes before the text?
Jeff
Apparently, yes. Here's a snippet:
procedure PrintBody
Dan: No exclamation code needed! I have a routine ala Mac Rubel that I
call dosprint. (There is a ton of Mac's stuff still in my code) It
works perfectly with the generic text driver and @say. The only problem
I ran into is this letter quality stuff.
Thanks!
Jeff
---
Jeff
On 2/23/12 5:14 PM, Ed Leafe wrote:
On Feb 23, 2012, at 6:59 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
Thanks for all your help. As a follow up, the VFP report designer was
my friend. The speed is good, easy to adjust and works fantastic.
Be sure to check out the Dabo Report Designer. Paul did an
On 02/23/2012 06:14 PM, Ed Leafe wrote:
On Feb 23, 2012, at 6:59 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
Thanks for all your help. As a follow up, the VFP report designer was
my friend. The speed is good, easy to adjust and works fantastic.
Be sure to check out the Dabo Report Designer. Paul did an
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012, at 02:34 PM, Mike Copeland wrote:
Thank God I don't have to deal with dot-matrix any more...
They're a PITA for sure. Using a printer font would help even when
taking the standard Windows driver and FRX file approach, as the print
head can do those characters in one
.232558 per line is 4.30 lines/inch
- I wonder if these are metric forms - 0.6cm/line is 4.2 lpi
AndyD 8-)₹
On 22/02/2012 19:49, Jeff Johnson wrote:
Yep. Multi-part forms. There is a line spacing setting, but it doesn't
seem to go the right way.
There is 8 lines per inch
A little math here, Jeff:
Lets use the n/216 spacing. 216/4.33 = 49.88 units per line.
OK, if we use 50/216, how far off will we be at the end of the page?
At 50/216 per line, the actual line height is .2315.
In 10 of printing, that's 10/.2315, or 43.196 lines.
Customer wants 4.33, so at the
Thanks for all your help. As a follow up, the VFP report designer was
my friend. The speed is good, easy to adjust and works fantastic.
Jeff
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(623) 582-0323
www.san-dc.com
On 02/23/2012 03:58 PM, Dan Covill wrote:
A little math here, Jeff:
On Feb 23, 2012, at 6:59 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
Thanks for all your help. As a follow up, the VFP report designer was
my friend. The speed is good, easy to adjust and works fantastic.
Be sure to check out the Dabo Report Designer. Paul did an amazing job
taking all the good parts
You'll have to look at the users manual of the printer to see if it supports
what you want it to do.
Years ago you used to be able to print in graphics mode, so you could print a
photo using a dot matrix printer, but that was extremely slow.
What's the application here? Is it multi-part
Yep. Multi-part forms. There is a line spacing setting, but it doesn't
seem to go the right way.
There is 8 lines per inch
7/72 inch line spacing
6 lines per inch
n/216 inch line spacing
n/72 inch line spacing
What I need is 4.33 lines per inch. Not sure how to
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Jeff Johnson j...@san-dc.com wrote:
I am attempting to print using a dot matrix on a preprinted form. The
trouble is that the lines I have to work with are not the standard
number of lines per inch. Is there a way to put a line and a half
between two lines?
IF you do it in VFP and use a windows driver for the printer, I'm pretty sure
you can do exactly what you want.
From: Jeff Johnson j...@san-dc.com
To: profox@leafe.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 2:49 PM
Subject: Re: Dot Matrix Printing
Yep. Multi
you want.
From: Jeff Johnsonj...@san-dc.com
To: profox@leafe.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 2:49 PM
Subject: Re: Dot Matrix Printing
Yep. Multi-part forms. There is a line spacing setting, but it doesn't
seem to go the right way
Yeah, it's going to probably be real slow.
From: Jeff Johnson j...@san-dc.com
To: profox@leafe.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: Dot Matrix Printing
I will try that. I have always used @say with dot matrix.
Jeff
it to a file.
Thank God I don't have to deal with dot-matrix any more...
Mike
Original Message
Subject: Re: Dot Matrix Printing
From: Michael Madigan mmadi10...@yahoo.com
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Date: 2/22/2012 2:31 PM
Yeah, it's going to probably be real slow
That won't work for a non-text printjob, though.
From: Mike Copeland m...@ggisoft.com
To: profox@leafe.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: Dot Matrix Printing
I always had good results by outputting the print-content to a text
file
True that...didn't print many pictures on a dot-matrixwell, I did,
but quickly learned my lesson.
Original Message
Subject: Re: Dot Matrix Printing
From: Michael Madigan mmadi10...@yahoo.com
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Date: 2/22/2012 2:36 PM
That won't work for a non-text
The non-standard line spacing is going to be difficult to overcome
From: Mike Copeland m...@ggisoft.com
To: profox@leafe.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: Dot Matrix Printing
True that...didn't print many pictures on a dot-matrix
Some printers have escape codes to set the line spacing to like n/360th of
an inch, at least some Epson printers do. See if there is a manual for
your printer model that supports more fine line spacing.
For some Epson printers:
files.support.*epson*.com/pdf/general/escp2ref.pdf
Fred
On Wed,
On 02/22/12 12:31, Michael Madigan wrote:
Yeah, it's going to probably be real slow.
The thing that's slow is the dot-matrix printer, not the computing.
Dan
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Fred's correct, there may be codes to adjust the linespacing to exactly what
you need
From: Dan Covill dcov...@san.rr.com
To: ProFox Email List profox@leafe.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: Dot Matrix Printing
On 02/22/12 12:31
Subject: Re: Dot Matrix Printing
From: Michael Madigan mmadi10...@yahoo.com
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Date: 2/22/2012 2:39 PM
The non-standard line spacing is going to be difficult to overcome
From: Mike Copelandm...@ggisoft.com
To: profox@leafe.com
Sent
Setting up the page with the report designer is significantly faster! ;^)
There are only about 10 or 15 fields on this work order so I don't think
speed will be an issue. Dot matrix is the only important thing because
of the multi parts.
Thank you all for your assistance.
Jeff
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Jeff Johnson j...@san-dc.com wrote:
Setting up the page with the report designer is significantly faster! ;^)
There are only about 10 or 15 fields on this work order so I don't think
speed will be an issue. Dot matrix is the only important thing because
of
Stephen Russell wrote on 2012-02-22:
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Jeff Johnson j...@san-dc.com wrote:
Setting up the page with the report designer is significantly faster!
;^)
There are only about 10 or 15 fields on this work order so I don't think
speed will be an issue. Dot
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Tracy Pearson tr...@powerchurch.com wrote:
Stephen Russell wrote on 2012-02-22:
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Jeff Johnson j...@san-dc.com wrote:
Setting up the page with the report designer is significantly faster!
;^)
-
LOL!
--
Stephen
Jeff
On 02/22/2012 03:11 PM, Tracy Pearson wrote:
Stephen Russell wrote on 2012-02-22:
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Jeff Johnsonj...@san-dc.com wrote:
Setting up the page with the report designer is significantly faster!
;^)
There are only about 10 or 15 fields on this work
Hard to say without having the actual printer ... maybe have a title
band and put it in there ?
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I'm so smart! ;^) The report is a whole bunch of three part shippers
so I put a list of what shippers are going to print on that first page
and now everything prints perfectly and he has a control list of what
deliveries are out on that first page.
Jeff
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Jeff Johnson
Alan: I have everything working perfectly! I have only one little
problem. I need to send a ??? letterquality command in order to get the
correct fonts at the start of the report. I tried putting it in the
first line of the string to be printed (@1, 10 say
letterqualityescapecode + header)
Well, it doesn't use PCL because that's a HP thing. It emulates Epson,
so it uses ESC/P2. Manual is here: http://tinyurl.com/4k9soh2
That lists all the escape sequences around page 110.
Unless you absolutely have to use @SAY you might find it easier to use a
normal report layout and use printer
Thank you Alan
Jeff
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j...@san-dc.com
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On 02/01/2011 02:23 PM, Alan Bourke wrote:
Well, it doesn't use PCL because that's a HP thing. It emulates Epson,
so it uses ESC/P2. Manual is here: http://tinyurl.com/4k9soh2
That
,
internal reports are all done using dot matrix.
Cheers
Peter
-Original Message-
From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Jeff Johnson
Sent: 24 August 2010 23:16
To: profox@leafe.com
Subject: Re: Dot Matrix
On 08/24/2010 02:22 PM, Peter Hart wrote
Most important thing with matrix - get a high-end Oki or Epson and DON'T
LET THEM SKIMP ON IT!
In terms of printing, install the drivers then read the manual and find
out what internal fonts the printer uses. These will appear in the font
lists in the VFP report designer with a little printer
We use printronix for multipart-fanfold. Its big and fast an reliable.
william
On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 13:48 -0700, Jeff Johnson wrote:
I have a customer that wants to be able to print up service orders on
three part paper with a dot matrix. You know, fan fold in a box and you
tear it off.
Are Printronix anything to do with Oki, or do Oki sell them rebranded or
something ?
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alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
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I don't think so, they are ultra heavy duty, ultra high speed line matrix
printers.
Rick Q
quilh...@gmail.com
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Alan Bourke alanpbou...@fastmail.fmwrote:
Are Printronix anything to do with Oki, or do Oki sell them rebranded or
something ?
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Alan Bourke
Here a site with some specs:
http://www.technic.net/main.php?page=productscat_id=174_176_211name=Printronix-Line-Printers
Rick Q
quilh...@gmail.com
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Alan Bourke alanpbou...@fastmail.fmwrote:
Are Printronix anything to do with Oki, or do Oki sell them rebranded
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:07 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC
mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
Holy crap that is expensive! Definitely industrial strength for that
price I hope! lol
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I know of Oki printers in use over 15 years at car dealerships.
Swapping
On 08/25/2010 06:28 AM, Stephen Russell wrote:
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:07 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC
mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
Holy crap that is expensive! Definitely industrial strength for that
price I hope! lol
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I know of
Jeff,
Definitely OKI printers. We have some doing the same thing here that are 10
years old (the 390 and 5900 series). They are certainly heavy duty and the
only downtime we have had was when print heads actually wear out and that is
a 30 second replacement. For best use with VFP I find that
a lesser mode, it took about a day to realize it was a BIG mistake.
Lol
Lou
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Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 6:07 PM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: Re: Dot
Subject: Re: Dot Matrix
Most important thing with matrix - get a high-end Oki or Epson and DON'T
LET THEM SKIMP ON IT!
In terms of printing, install the drivers then read the manual and find
out what internal fonts the printer uses. These will appear in the font
lists in the VFP report designer
Jeff - if You can believe it - I actually have an old Dot Matrix type
printer in the garage - I think its an OkiData and I think it's a wider
format one. I haven't had any use for it in years - and maybe I could
even send it to you...
-K-
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From:
Jeff Johnson wrote:
I have a customer that wants to be able to print up service orders on
three part paper with a dot matrix. You know, fan fold in a box and you
tear it off. What printers work well with VFP?
I did a report for FDP 2.0 and it was so slow as to be unusable.
I think
The high end Epsons were quite fast and struck the paper hard enough for 3 or 4
part carbons. I believe they were quite programmable re stuff like impact
pressure using the built in pcl.
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From: Jeff Johnson
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To: profoxt...@leafe.com
I worked for a company 10 years ago that used Okidata 3410 printers to print
through 8-part forms. At a trade show I once saw a coke can that it
printed on - and you could clearly read what it printed. They were tanks,
wouldn't surprise me if they were still running today.
Kinda pricey, but it
On 08/24/2010 02:06 PM, Lou Syracuse wrote:
I worked for a company 10 years ago that used Okidata 3410 printers to print
through 8-part forms. At a trade show I once saw a coke can that it
printed on - and you could clearly read what it printed. They were tanks,
wouldn't surprise me if they
Hi Jeff
Here in the UK I have customers using Panasonic, Epson and OKI.
The Panasonic KX-P3200 is a small footprint but rugged printer ideal for
a shop counter.
The Epson's and the Oki's are used back office for printing invoices and
multipage A3 reports.
All have proved to be extremely
On 08/24/2010 02:22 PM, Peter Hart wrote:
Hi Jeff
Here in the UK I have customers using Panasonic, Epson and OKI.
The Panasonic KX-P3200 is a small footprint but rugged printer ideal for
a shop counter.
The Epson's and the Oki's are used back office for printing invoices and
multipage A3
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From: MB Software Solutions,LLC mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com
To: ProFox Email List profox@leafe.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 1:54 PM
Subject: Re: Dot Matrix
Jeff Johnson wrote:
I have a customer that wants to be able to print up service orders on
three part
If you really want speed impact for multi-part form go with a printronix
line printer.
It prints the entire line at once.
Rick Q
quilh...@gmail.com
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Jeff Johnson j...@san-dc.com wrote:
I have a customer that wants to be able to print up service orders on
Lou Syracuse wrote:
I worked for a company 10 years ago that used Okidata 3410 printers to print
through 8-part forms. At a trade show I once saw a coke can that it
printed on - and you could clearly read what it printed. They were tanks,
wouldn't surprise me if they were still running
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