Oki printer is acting up

[icodian]

Printing on an Okidata Microline 320 Turbo dot matrix printer. I am printing an invoice generated in Crystal Reports.

While previewing the report, it looks beautiful. Upon printing, a variety of errors occur and there doesn't seem to be any consistency. Sometimes when I print the invoice, a few lines are skipped (a subtotal will be skipped one time, yet look fine the next time for example)...other times it will only print half of the invoice.

The same report will print fine to my HP Laserjet...

I was told that the printer should be in Epson emulation mode and to use the Epson FX-800 driver. I have tried this but it hasn't helped. Does anyone have any other suggestions?

Thanks for any assistance.

 

[Guest_imported]

Not familiar with the printer or your software programme. However, does it print other documents, or even print a test page successfully? Depending upon your operating system and driver software, there will be either be a facility with the driver for a test print, or maybe an off-line option on the printer itself.


ROGER - GØAOZ.

 

[stuartd]

I presume you are not printing graphics mode to this printer. I had the same issue using Active Reports. It seems that these report generators combined with windows printer drivers are not very good at sending plain text, and the result is random dropping of lines or words/letters across the line.
I never resolved my problem, resulting in muiple copies being sent to lasers.

 

[icodian]

Thanks for the posts. The printer works well for all other apps and test printing. It seemed to be a compatibility issue between the printer and Crystal Reports. However, when I connected the printer to a different computer, it worked fine. There must be a setting somewhere that I am missing... I'll check up on the graphics mode thing to be sure.