Printing in Win98 (OpenInsight Specific)
At 13 DEC 1999 04:40:23AM Simon Bowyer wrote:
We recently upgraded a customers computers from wfw 3.11 to Win98. The application they run (OI 3.4) has not changed but the Win98 machine keeps hanging when printing. The only thing you can do is switch off. It is not every time but enough to be very annoying. We are using the Generic text driver to print to a local Star SP200 till receipt type printer and commands such as print_text(). We don't seem to be getting this problem with Win95/WfW3.11 clients. Any ideas?!?!?!?
Thanks
Simon Bowyer
At 13 DEC 1999 09:14AM Oystein Reigem wrote:
Simon,
How does one print to a printer with the generic text driver? I've just used it to print to file. And it always asks for a file name. Do you specify e.g "lpt1" instead of the file name? Is that it?
Have you tried to compare the two printouts (Win 3.x or 95 vs 98)? Couldn't you do that by printing with the generic text driver to file instead and compare the files?
I admit I don't much believe the reason for the failure is in what the app and driver prints, but you never know. My (the Norwegian) generic text driver has bugs you'd never believe. Perhaps this piece of software isn't much used and low on Microsoft's priority list?
- Oystein -
At 13 DEC 1999 10:27AM Simon Bowyer wrote:
Oystein
Thanks for your reply. When installing the printer under Win98, I simply selected the generic text driver as the printer and pointed it at the LPT port. It doesn't ask for the filename but then again, it doesn't always work either!! I personally think it may be a 98 specific problem but if anyone else has any ideas….
Cheers
Simon
At 13 DEC 1999 12:41PM Oystein Reigem wrote:
Simon,
…pointed it at the LPT port
Right. Of course. Wasn't at my Win98 computer when I replied, so I couldn't try it.
What happens if you write to file instead and copy the file to LPT1 afterwards? If that works - could you use it for a workaround, i.e do the same thing programmatically? (Don't you just hate it when people suggest clumsy workarounds like that?)
- Oystein -
At 14 DEC 1999 06:55AM Steve Smith wrote:
If you haven't already done so, apply the service pack for Win 98.
Second, try a different printer driver (eg. for an Epson LQ2500 or similar basic printer) and see if this helps. It may be simply a printer buffer overflow condition. What happens if you try to print from Windows notepad.exe to this printer???
Steve