| Subject | Re: _pdriver does not work |
| From | Mustansir Ghor <mustan31@hotmail.com> |
| Date | Wed, 21 Feb 2018 13:51:52 -0500 |
| Newsgroups | dbase.getting-started |
Dear Mervyn Thank you sir. You are too resourceful. Hats off to you. The manual did make many openings. Do you think using USB port printer will respond to ESC/P2 sequence. If it does bravo. Further many EPSON laser printers prints printer drivers on the test page. Do we have to use this driver in dbase _pdriver setting to make use of ESC/P2 sequence or how to ensure dbase will successfully send ESC/P2 to printer for these printers. Best Regards Mustansir Mervyn Bick Wrote: > On 2018-02-21 11:13 AM, Mustansir Ghor wrote: > > Dear Peter > > > > Thank you for example given. It is working all well. But main problem still persists. It does recognize paper size. I wonder, are you using USB port or parallel port (LPT!). I am testing on USB port. > > > > I went further to try to set printer setting ( Devices & Printers) for custom paper size of H= 4" , W= 8.5" named it as bchc and used this in tractor feed. When I did Test print (from Windows) , it worked fine and Test print came out on 4" tractor feed paper and tear off position was correct. > > > > So now I opened report engine and set printer to EPSON LQ-690 ESC/P2, made page template to H = 4" and W = 8.5" , when it printed it did not work and it stopped at A4 settings. > > > > I then thought of changing paper size on printer property and select bchc the name that I had set for paper size in Windows printer, however this name did not appear. > > > > Please can anybody guide on this subject as how to make dBase 11.3 understand that for the printer chosen, its paper size is H= 4" and w=8.5" > > If your printer understands Epson's ESC/P2 you can set the page length > in inches. It will almost certainly understand ESC/P in which case you > can set the page length in lines. > > > The ESP/P instruction to set the page length in lines is > > ESC C n where n is between 1 and 127 > > The ESC/P instruction to set the right margin > > ESC Q n where n is the number of characters > > The ESC/P instruction to set the left margin is > > ESC I n where n is the number of characters. Default is 1 > > It's MANY years since I last had to send control codes to a printer so > the syntax below may need some work. :-( > > The default number of lines per inch is 6 so the following should set > the page length to 44 lines ie 4 inches. > > set console off > set print on > ? chr(27)+'C44' > ? chr(27)+'Q80' > set print off > set console on > > > If you haven't got the ESC/P manual for your printer, Google > > epson esc/p manual > > > > Mervyn. > > > > | |