OIPI Printing question (OpenInsight 16-Bit Specific)
At 01 APR 2002 04:15:36PM b cameron wrote:
Trying to send an OIPI report to a Okidata 520 setup as local printer and want to print in draft only (the quickest).
This is a client request so i know i know, why why why, but they HAVE to have it. Tried several different font selections.
Can anyone recommend a font or setting I may be overlooking.
Thanks.
At 01 APR 2002 08:14PM Donald Bakke wrote:
Bruce,
Draft only is a property of the printer when printing in DOS. Windows (OIPI) will use the Windows Print engine and ignore any special setting of the printer. Your best bet is to use the Courier font or select the Generic / Text Only printer driver if you want speed.
At 02 APR 2002 02:59AM Tony Splaver wrote:
You should also try setting the PRINTQUALITY message to 1 or 2. This does not also work perfectly in the 16-bit OIPI.
Tony
At 02 APR 2002 12:13PM Don Miller - C3 Inc. wrote:
As a sidebar .. if you choose the Generic Text Only, you can use the printer's front or panel controls to pick fonts & sizes.
HTH
Don
At 02 APR 2002 03:19PM b cameron wrote:
I used get_printer("fonts") to get a listing of the available fonts.
The 4th value was 'HS-Draft 12cpi' so I used that.
(I assume it needs to be the exact text?)
That got me 75% of the way there. Now, I think because I am using ADDTABLE the printer switches (I can see the lights on the panel)
for the prop. spacing in the columns.
What would be the 'Generic Text only' setting. Would it be just that?
Thanks for the responses so far.
At 02 APR 2002 04:30PM Don Miller - C3 Inc. wrote:
What the Generic Text Only printer driver does is to disable the Windoze print manager's ability to fuss with things. It can only send the pure ASCII text characters space, 0-9, A-Z and a-z. No font changes, no proportional spacing nothing. I found that the Windows print manager could only print 60 characters on an 8.5 x 11 page (margins set to 0 top and bottom). Also the line spacing was just a hair bigger than 6 lpi. Needless to say, this raised havoc with some gov't supplied pre-printed forms. By changing to the generic driver, I can print a full page on an Epson LQ and can use the front panel to select a monospaced font, double-strike draft font. It prints 4 part forms just fine that way.
Don
At 03 APR 2002 11:42PM Scott, LMS wrote:
I haven't tried this specifically with OI/OIPI but I use it for MS Word and it does work with OIPI.
With Win95 and Win98, In the printer setup (control panel) etc I create a copy of my printer definition and set that up with properties how I want eg draft and duplex.
I make this printer setup/definition/pointer the default one, and when I print from OIPI, tadah - I get duplex or fast or whatever I want.
If you let the users at printer setup from the preview window, they can choose other printer definitions if they want.
And the definitions all point to the same physical printer.
NT client is a little more difficult to make printer definition copies. But I think thats mostly because the NT printer driver I have doesn't support the duplex setting. And the NT lan/server tends to automatically give you the printer drivers how it thinks it should be. I suppose you could get your lan manager to set up a copy for you if this was the case.
Scott, LMS