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Printing without a final page eject

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superdaz

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May 23, 2002
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AU
Hi All,

I am trying to print labels to a variety of continuous feed dot matrix printers. Printing only one or two labels at a time, I do not want a page eject at the end of the job. However I have found no way of disabling this apart from bypassing the printer drivers completely and sending control codes direct to the printers. This is not acceptable as I need to use windows fonts.
I cannot use the 'standard' trick of setting up custom page sizes, as the label height (about one inch) is less than the minimum page height on all printers I have encountered.
Does anyone know how I can print a job using any of label forms, report forms or the standard print commands (?, SAY, etc) without having VFP/Windows send a final page eject with the print job ?
The problems is the same on all of Win98, Win2000 and XP.
 
I believe you are being restricted by your own requirements. If you must use the Windows printer driver for the fonts, then you have to live with what they do. Some dot-matrix printers (actually thier driver) have an option not to eject the page, if your's doesn't then check with the manufacturer for an updated or alternate driver.

Rick
 
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