USING FIXED WIDTH FONTS!

[mcklsn]

Can someone, anyone, maybe even someone from Microsoft, please tell how to make fixed width fonts work with a dot matix printer such as my Okidata ML391. I running Windows XP and printing from Visual Studio. When I select a fixed width font so that the printer will print faster using its own internal font instead of the bit mapped TrueType fonts, it prints about 4 lines and then nothing else. There has got to be a way to make VS send just the ASCII codes to the printer. It starts out the way! and then it switches over to the bit mapped data. Why? Please, please, PLEASE! Someone must know what is going on and how to get around it.
Thanks you very much in advance.

 

[micker377]

Ascii is DOS. XP effectively has no DOS. Check with Okidata for XP drivers.

 

[edfair]

ASCII is ASCII. Was that way long before DOS.

How about trying another printer driver. My first fallback when I get hit with this is to try the HP II P+ which is mostly forward compatible from most dot matrix printers and seems to be backwards compatible in all the applications I use. I choose that because I have 2Ps on the network to test with.

Ed Fair
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