I developed a report on win95 using the HP laserjet series II printer driver. Works great, preview and print (except of course the bug in the runtime that prevents printing from the preview).

  Anyhow, when I move the report to the customer's NT machine using an HP 4000....Ugly. Previews and Prints real big.

   Also, when, on my development machine, I print to my Xerox document center 102 printer, it prints teeny tiny. About half sixe.

   What are the secrets in doing stuff like this? different printers and OSes, etc.

any help/ideas appreciated? [email protected]

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Paxton,

The standard HP emulations do not suffice on

the HP 4000 and 5000 series. I found that I

had to specify page size, and NOT tray, and

then font, and that I had to follow the manual

very closely. I don't presently have access to

one of these HPs, but I did some work at one site

to remedy the print faults they were having on

a HP 5000, and the code looked much different

to standard PCL. The printer book wasn't always

correct either, as the sequence is important.

CHAR(27):'E' (a reset) should be sent to the

printer each time you test.

You'll have to mess around a bit with the codes

in the book to get it to work.

Steve

Thanks, Steve.

This sounds like what I used to have to do with AREV and DOS. manage all the pcl commands. Were you working in AREV or OI?

–paxton

ps. I've never send printer commands from OI/Win95 or NT. Where do you insert them?

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