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Generic / Text Driver with Access Reports
Can anyone tell me if the following is possible?
I am using an Epson DFX-8500 printer for this, with nothing entered for printer codes or anything. I am trying to make a report in Access 2003 (2000 format) and use the Generic / Text Driver to increase my printing speed. I am currently using the epson 8500 driver which takes the printer's maximum speed and makes it less than half of that. When I take an existing report and print it to the Generic driver or make a fresh report and print it to the Generic driver the data is printed ok, but the printer cannot find the end of page correctly. I am using standard tractor feed paper set to letter size. The page n of y should always be at the bottom and it will be anywhere from too high on the page to on the next one. I cannot get any commands on the printer tab to work. All they do for me is print on the reports. Is there any help out there for entering the Epson printer commands into the printer commands tab? Michael |
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It works. You have to first make sure that you are using the device font
and make sure that all your text boxes are exactly 1/6 inch high and on a 1/6 grid. Things like page x of y really only work properly at the top of the page You cannot have a line with a textbox on the right side of the page and nothing at the beginning of the line. I think it's because the driver is more along the lines of a line printer than a page printer (like your ink/laser). You have to get one of the really old printer manuals to get the codes. If you have printer codes make sure you use 1B for escape. For even faster performance I generate the report line by line in code, save it in a text file and then dump that to the text only driver. It has it's restrictions and difficulties but printing 2000 2-part statements a 1 day for cheap is worth it. Regards Brian wrote in message ps.com... Can anyone tell me if the following is possible? I am using an Epson DFX-8500 printer for this, with nothing entered for printer codes or anything. I am trying to make a report in Access 2003 (2000 format) and use the Generic / Text Driver to increase my printing speed. I am currently using the epson 8500 driver which takes the printer's maximum speed and makes it less than half of that. When I take an existing report and print it to the Generic driver or make a fresh report and print it to the Generic driver the data is printed ok, but the printer cannot find the end of page correctly. I am using standard tractor feed paper set to letter size. The page n of y should always be at the bottom and it will be anywhere from too high on the page to on the next one. I cannot get any commands on the printer tab to work. All they do for me is print on the reports. Is there any help out there for entering the Epson printer commands into the printer commands tab? Michael |
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Generic / Text Driver with Access Reports
I have found that if I use a specific printer in the report and tell it
that I want to print in "draft" mode instead of Near Letter Quality and use a non True Type font (one that has a printer as the icon instead of the TT) that I can get significant speed increases without sacrificing the layout ability that the report designer gives me. I am now using the DFX-8500 print driver and have only plain text on the document. It looks like now I can get approx. 500 sheets per hour now out of my printer. Hope this helps others out there. Michael |
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Generic / Text Driver with Access Reports
If you were to look at the output that's going to the printer you will see
that if you are using the DFX driver instead of the Text Only, windows is sending a lot of control codes to your printer which are actually slowing you down. The Text Only driver with printer specific fonts is faster. If you still need to double your speed, dumping the raw text to the Text Only is the only way. Brian wrote in message oups.com... I have found that if I use a specific printer in the report and tell it that I want to print in "draft" mode instead of Near Letter Quality and use a non True Type font (one that has a printer as the icon instead of the TT) that I can get significant speed increases without sacrificing the layout ability that the report designer gives me. I am now using the DFX-8500 print driver and have only plain text on the document. It looks like now I can get approx. 500 sheets per hour now out of my printer. Hope this helps others out there. Michael |
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