We're trying to print some inventory tags from Baan. We've generated the tags using a customized report. The tag stock we're using was designed for a different system and we have 90,000 on hand so we cannot use a different tag.

The form length (per tag) of each tag is 4 inches (or 40 lines). The width is 8.5 inches. We're using an IBM 6400 series line printer.

Here's the problem: Regardless of what we do, the 6400 seems to think there are 66 lines-per-page. We've adjusted the page length of the Baan report - many times - and attempted creating new paper types. So far, with no luck.

If anyone has experience with this process, we'd appreciate some help.

More information is available upon request.

We fiddled with some paper type setting and got it to work. Sorry to have bothered y'all.

Could you please post what you changed? It may help someone in the future.

Thanks

Mark

Sure: On Device Data for our printer in question, there is a setting called Form Feed Every Page.

For reasons we do not understand, this forces the report to form feed everytime it will overflow the printer's own page-length setting. When we uncheck this, the printer page-feeds when the report tells it to page-feed and not based on some hardware (or firmware) setting.

Just another trick to put in our bag, I guess.

Now that you mention it - that is what I had to do on our HP's at our site to get them to work. We had several reports that would overflow onto the next page - we use HP's at all sites, but ours was the only one with this problem. This was three or four years ago. I now set this on every printer I create for my site.

Mark