When we went from Advanced Pick to D3 7.4.0 I ran into a problem with
our Epson FX-890 printer. It is installed on our Windows 2003 server
and the coldstart set up is:

020 Hdev-remov n56
021 P
022 Hdev-make -t NTPrinter -n 56 -a "F0 Office"
023 P
024 Hstartptr 0,0,0,s56
025 P

I have a basic program that sets the printer to condensed print:

001 EXECUTE "TERM ,,,,,,272,59"
002 PRINTER ON
003 PRINT CHAR(15):CHAR(27):CHAR(80):
004 PRINTER OFF
eoi 004

The print char(15) now causes a form-feed on the printer. It does not
cause a form feed on the Epson LQ-2090 we have installed. And it
didn't cause a form feed under Advanced Pick.

The Epson FX uses ESC/P and the LQ uses ESCP/P2. Maybe this is the
problem? Maybe it is a problem now because we're going through the
windows printer driver. I couldn't find a way to bypass the driver
under printer properties. It is using Raw print under the advanced
options.

The program to switch back to 10cpi also causes a form feed:

001 EXECUTE "TERM ,,,,,,164,59"
002 PRINTER ON
003 PRINT CHAR(18):CHAR(27):CHAR(80):
004 PRINTER OFF
eoi 004

The internal printer settings on the FX-890 are the same as on the
LQ-2090.

Hopefully someone else has encountered this problem and can help!

Change to: HSTARTPTR 0,0,1,S56 (S

The S option will suppress the automatic leading form-feed. The 1 will add
a form-feed to the end of the job to force out the last page printed.


Mark Brown

<colleensisco (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote