LaserJet Driver issue

[ChuckG]

Had a Win95 machine, printing to a HP LJ 5Si. We had to use an old driver (I thought it was a LJ 4M) to get this one report to print correctly. It's using some odd characters for lines/etc in the report, that when printed with a current driver it comes out as AAAAAAA with two period's above each one.

Thought at first it might be ANSI, but even with ANSI.SYS loaded it's still not printing correctly.

Anyone have any suggestions on a driver/setting to try?

Thanks
ChuckG

 

[bluegroper]

Whats the gui application you're using ?
Is it Micro$oft Word ?

- BG

 

[ChuckG]

Actually it's Visual Foxpro.

The PRG was originally written in DBase though.

 

[ChuckG]

It looks like these symbols it's trying to print are ASCII characters. Is there a way to set a printer driver to print the ASCII characters rather than the windows version?

 

[ChuckG]

Just wanted to let anyone having this issue know.

Found a solution. We loaded an older LaserJet 4M driver, and switched it to do graphic's via Raster, rather than the HP format. Prints fine.

ChuckG

 

[dbMark]

If Visual FoxPro is using the wrong driver, you'll get output like that. VFP should use the correct printer driver selected from the installed Windows printer drivers.

We used to see this a lot in laser printers in the past when dBase and FoxPro (both DOS-based) didn't send output through the correct driver. It has to do with differing character sets which used character numbers 128-255 for graphics such as boxes (as seen on the screen but the printer was set to a character set which didn't. When we saw it we knew that the wrong driver, or none, had been specified.

dbMark