I want to setup a wide tractor A3 Dot matrix printer.

I can set the printer up ok, but I cannot seem to get the printer to print reports that fit on the paper and Baan outputs most standard reports with bold areas and this causes the printer to slow down.

I just want to be able to output a standard draft quality print.

Is this possible?

Thanks in advance

Do you use the correct printer driver in the device data?

Check if the printer inf file contains a escape sequence for bold font. If it not available than Baan tries to turn bold on by printing the same character more than once by using a backspace between the characters. That slows down the printing a lot!

Regards,
Han

I am using a standard windows text only driver for the printer. is there no way other than modding the report to turn off bold and thingls like that?

This became an issue for us when we went live as previously our standard printers had all been dot matrix.

I think if you're already using the windows generic driver there's probably not much more you can do.

We were very quickly forced down a shared HP route after go live.

Sorry not a great answer I know.

Regards
Neal Matthews
Intier Automotive - IT Support Analyst

Shared HP Laser?

Thanks for that.

Yes sorry I meant to say HP Laser.

We tend to use HP 5000's for departments that require a bit of power and the smaller 1200's with a network box where we can get away with it.

Hope this helps.

Neal Matthews
Intier Automotive - IT Support Analyst

Thanks.

Is there any way that I can get baan to output to select a specific tray on a printer or would that have to be in the printer defaults for automation purposes?

We have a A3 laser printer (tray 4) I was just wondering weather we could use that without getting the message that the report won't fit on paper.

I wouldn't have thought that would be possible through bwprint. Although you can control the orientation easily enough.

Is the only reason you want to use A3 the message about the report not fitting on the paper ?

Where does this message appear and what sort of report are you trying to print ?

Regards
Neal Matthews
Intier Automotive - IT Support Analyst

Stats report.

Bwprint say's it wont fit on A3 and it actually won't unfortunately.

Any chance you could format the report.

Strip down descriptions, names etc and change the format of the quantity / value fields.

Neal Matthews
Intier Automotive - IT Support Analyst

On what os are you running Baan?

Defining they standard tray is easy on Unix. On Nt you probably have to define this in the printer driver. However I currently have a problem with defining within the printer driver that the print should be printed twice, but bwprint resets this always to 1.

So I am not sure if this will work on nt (but it should).

On Unix you can simple change the init code in the printinf file.

Message regarding that the report doesn't fit lays in the combination the number of chars defined within your report and the paper size of the paper defined in the printer device.

Regards,
Han

I shall sort something out with the report as for Han 's problem
could you not set a printer that prints to a file and trigger a batch file to duplicat this print and then sent it to another printer? I know it sounds a bit long winded but it should work?

Matthew

As I understand from the intial query you posted is that you want to print a BaaN report on a dot matrix printer with draft quality. To do so you have to define a new device like fastprint with these the configuration as
Device type = Rewrite file
Locale =

As I understand from the intial query you posted is that you want to print a BaaN report on a dot matrix printer with draft quality. To do so you have to define a new device like fastprint with these the configuration as

Device type = Rewrite file
Locale = ISO-8859-1
4GLProgram = ttstpconv
argument = ASCII:c:\ASCIIPRN.BAT%s
Path = Fileout

then you have to create a text file as c:\asciiprn.bat with contents as

PAUSE
ECHO %0 %1 %2 %3 %4
PAUSE
COPY %1 LPT1: /B
PAUSE
DEL %1

I think this will solve solve your problem of printing as draft quality.

Thanks for that I shall give it a go!