Check Factory / Win XP

[ultrav]

Not technically a Macola question but I hope someone can help. We are running Macola 7.6.1, Pervasive SQL 2000 and Check Factory 2.44.8. Since we upgraded from Win NT to Win XP our forms have to be selected in check factory when we are printing them. Also, the line that tells check factory what to print is printing on the form. The really strange part is that it does not happen on every computer. These computers were bought at the same time and configured the same. I reinstalled the forms and modified them and now computers that were working are not and vice versa. Does anyone have any insight?

Thanks for your help.

 

[stravis]

Verify that the "Check Factory" printer is setup properly for each of your PCs. If I remember correctly Check Factory requires a PCL5 compliant printer driver for this task. Take a look at the printer configuration for the systems that this is working on, and replicate that on your other systems. I'm guessing that this is more than likely your problem. Let me know if it works.

Scott Travis
NEXO Systems, Inc.

 

[MacolaHelp]

I have also found that when you get a new printer or new OS that you must choose the reset button on the print dialog box to have macola recognize your new default printer or OS, then select again the printer you want for the job. Somewhere in that printdef file it seems to remember the old OS of your workstation.

What has your experience been w/Check Factory? How many checks do you print? One of my clients is interested in it, but I haven't used it anywhere in years.

 

[dgillz]

Peggy,

CheckFactory is OK, but check out ReForm by Fabsoft. They are an authorized 3rd party partner of Exact, and the product is much, much easier to use.

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[ultrav]

We have been using Check Factory for many years (12?) and dgillz is right it is ok but it seems to me that there should be a better way. It was definitely worth it when we got it - not just for checks but so we did not have to buy and stock forms. They have not really upgraded in all the time we have been using it - so there are probably some better products out there.

 

[stravis]

Just a little insight.

If you look at the PRINTDEF file in Macola you will see that there is some binary data stored with every default printer record. This is something from the old days of having to configure the application to print to a specific printer. Macola just dynamically grabs that information and stores it for each default printer, so when you switch to another OS and the driver changes the two no longer match up. This is why you have to reselect your default printer so that the binary data can be updated from the current driver.

Scott Travis
NEXO Systems, Inc.