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My Printer is too Slow
- Thread starter grego
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Hi, Grego!
Windows printer driver always prints reports as graphics, so it is quite slow on any matrix printer. DOS prints in text mode, so printer prints no graphics, just text. Text printing much more quick for matrix printers.
To use DOS way in Windows, do not use 'report form ... to printer' command, use instead following:
* write report into text file instead of printing
report form ... to file MyFile.TXT ASCII
* print content of produced text file
set printer on
Copy file 'MyFile.TXT' to 'LPT1:'
set printer off
set printer to
* delete temporary text file
ERASE ('MyFile.TXT')
Vlad Grynchyshyn
vgryn@softserve.lviv.ua
The professional level of programmer could be determined by level of stupidity of his/her bugs
Windows printer driver always prints reports as graphics, so it is quite slow on any matrix printer. DOS prints in text mode, so printer prints no graphics, just text. Text printing much more quick for matrix printers.
To use DOS way in Windows, do not use 'report form ... to printer' command, use instead following:
* write report into text file instead of printing
report form ... to file MyFile.TXT ASCII
* print content of produced text file
set printer on
Copy file 'MyFile.TXT' to 'LPT1:'
set printer off
set printer to
* delete temporary text file
ERASE ('MyFile.TXT')
Vlad Grynchyshyn
vgryn@softserve.lviv.ua
The professional level of programmer could be determined by level of stupidity of his/her bugs
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