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Any suggestion to print the fastest
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Design the report to use a font that is built into the printer. Avoid adding lines, boxes, bolding, italics or any other fancy stuff. If the printer has a draft mode. Use that. You may have to change this in the printer driver setting.
Also if you have access to Foxpro 2.6 for DOS. You can design a dos report and run it from VFP. These will sometimes be faster since old dos reports always lined up with the printer lines. With the windows reports you sometimes get 1/2 a line on one printer line and 1/2 on the other. You can see if you have this problem by watching the printer if it prints the top 1/2 of the letters on one pass and the bottom on the next, you are seeing this problem.
Also the long term solution is to get a Laser Printer. Pretty fast ones are now available for less than $500 dollar. In most companies they will pay for themselves in a few months due to time savings. People tend to stand around doing nothing while waiting for reports.
Also if you have access to Foxpro 2.6 for DOS. You can design a dos report and run it from VFP. These will sometimes be faster since old dos reports always lined up with the printer lines. With the windows reports you sometimes get 1/2 a line on one printer line and 1/2 on the other. You can see if you have this problem by watching the printer if it prints the top 1/2 of the letters on one pass and the bottom on the next, you are seeing this problem.
Also the long term solution is to get a Laser Printer. Pretty fast ones are now available for less than $500 dollar. In most companies they will pay for themselves in a few months due to time savings. People tend to stand around doing nothing while waiting for reports.
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