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- From: lindsey@tincup.enet.dec.com (Randy Lindsey)
- Subject: Re: FP 2.0 won't print reports on a postscript printer. Help.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.192238.4515@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>
- Sender: usenet@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com (USENET News System)
- Organization: Colorado Software Solutions, Inc.
- References: <1992Nov3.013431.11150@athena.cs.uga.edu> <Bx77K6.Mop@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 19:21:20 GMT
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- In article <Bx77K6.Mop@chinet.chi.il.us>, les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes...
- >In article <1992Nov3.013431.11150@athena.cs.uga.edu> millia@athena.cs.uga.edu (David W. Millians) writes:
- >
- >>Specifics: It's FP 2.0 lan, printing to an IBM 6 PS laserprinter.
- >>When the print job gets to the printer, it says "flushing," which
- >>apparently means that it is getting an end-of-job character from
- >>Foxpro. This is an inconsistent error, unfortunately. Sometimes
- >>the report works fine.
- >
- >"Flushing" means the printer has an error condition and it's usually
- >caused by sending non-postscript data. The situation that is likely
- >to cause this in FP is that you can either associate a print driver
- >with a report form or not. If you don't, the current or default
- >setting is used, if you do, the specified setting will be used instead.
- >You can control this with the "Printer Driver Setup" check box
- >under "Page Layout" in the report generator.
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- Also make sure your LAN printing settings are sending out banners, form
- feeds, etc. Make sure the LAN doesn't try to translate tabs, etc. (use
- NoTab on Novell).
-
- Randy Lindsey
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