Subject Re: _pdriver does not work From Mustansir Ghor <mustan31@hotmail.com> Date Thu, 22 Feb 2018 02:33:46 -0500 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started Dear Mervyn Thanks for help, and we will not leave you till end. We can rule out parallel port option for a moment since in future computers we are not anticipating this port to be there. Looking at report engine , In the printer property we can set  paper size. In the listing I did not find custom size. Therefore although I set my pagetemplate to H = 4" and W = 8.5", the paper size still remained Letter (11" x 8.5"). With Some experiment on MSword printing, on printer setup , using its property button I could set custom size paper. Applying this with chooseprinter() i was able to successfully get paper size. Later on opening form on design mode, it showed printer property papersize = 128. I dont  know what 128 represents. Best Regards Mustan Mervyn Bick Wrote: > On 2018-02-21 8:51 PM, Mustansir Ghor wrote: > > 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. > > Back in the days when I was using dot-matrix printers to print streamed > output there weren't any USB ports.  There actually wasn't Windows > either. :-) > > Most printers used a parallel port although there were some printers > which used serial ports.  At one stage I had a printer which had a > parallel port and a serial port although I never used the serial port. > > Windows printer drivers and WINSPOOL apparently don't pass control codes > through to the printer.  You may need to install the Generic Text > printer driver and then select that when you need to stream output. > > Unless someone else can help you, I'm afraid you're on your own here. > > Mervyn. > > >