Tractor feed printer

[Rockape]

Hi all,

Just wondering if anyone knows how to set user defined settings in MSACCESS97 in order to print to a tractor feed printer.

regards
Eddie

 

[KenHigg]

Not sure what you need to do exactly but post 21 in the folloowing thread has a routine that prints to a tractor feed printer:

http://www.access-programmers.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=99777&page=2

I think you send charactor codes to the printer to do stuff like scoll the paper, etc...

 

[Rockape]

Hi thanks for your reply,

My problem is that I cant define the type of paper size that I want to print on. I'm using A97 and an Epson LQ590. The defined sizes that are available are not the ones I want.

Any Ideas?

Regards
Eddie

Not sure what you need to do exactly but post 21 in the folloowing thread has a routine that prints to a tractor feed printer:

http://www.access-programmers.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=99777&page=2

I think you send charactor codes to the printer to do stuff like scoll the paper, etc...

 

[KenHigg]

I'm guessing you want to print on one of the old wide greenbar papers and the generic printer driver does not let you define a page that wide?

 

[Rockape]

Hi,

Not really, I'm trying to print to cheques. The size of the paper is 4 inches by 11 inches.

Regards

 

[KenHigg]

You may be able to go online and find a new/updated driver for your printer but I suspect you'll get frustrated and end up doing something like I did in the thread I referenced...

 

[gemma-the-husky]

vaguely recall - isnt there a standard printer driver for dot matrix printers

 

[Dennisk]

if its an epson printer then it will recognise a series of 'escape sequences' that will allow you to set up the printer prgramatically. I'me not sure wether you can perform this from Access. However it can be done from a batch file which can be run from Access.