I apologize for placing this question on both the REporter Specific and the OI specific boards…..but, appreciate any help.

I developed a report on Win95 using the HP laserjet series II printer driver. Works great, preview and print (except of course the bug in the runtime that prevents printing from the preview).

 Anyhow, when I move the report to the customer's NT machine using an HP 4000....Ugly. Previews and Prints real big.

  Also, when, on my development machine, I print to my Xerox document center 102 printer instead of the HP LJ II, it prints teeny tiny. About half size.

  What are the secrets in doing stuff like this? different printers and OSes, etc.  Is reporter somehow not using the right PCL codes, or what?

Any help/ideas appreciated? [email protected]

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Paxton,

First of all, I am assuming that you are not changing print drivers after the report has been loaded. That is, the HP 4000 was the default in advance.

Second, the output differences between HP II and HP 4000 (which uses PCL 5 or 6 I believe) can be very noticable, unfortunately. Window's so-called WYSIWYG seems to vanish when dealing with very old printers. One would think that writing for an HP II would guarantee compatability with newer HP's (i.e. using the lowest common denominator approach), but I've found that this isn't always a safe bet. For whatever reason, PCL 2 works differently than PCL 3 and higher. I don't know if this is supposed to be the case, but experience has shown me that it is (and this includes using simple PCL codes in AREV as well.) My suggestion is to design your reports using a PCL 5 compatable printer as the default. You'll have better success for the majority of modern printers out there.

The Xerox printer either doesn't support PCL very well or it just doesn't like PCL 2 specifically. Try re-running the report on this printer after you've designed it using a PCL 5 driver.

Don Bakke

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www.srpcs.com

Thanks, Don You've sort of confirmed my suspisions. I'm going to try working with the PCL5 drivers…guess I get to buy another new printer!

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