On an Advanced Revelation 2.1 report I need to print, I send a condense Laser code to an HP printer. The report is then sorted and sent to the printer. If the report becomes to large the printer resets to normal print before the data arrives to the printer. Is there a way to keep the printer code set until the next printer code is sent via AREV?

Why not send your control codes as the first few characters of the heading? That way every page will be corrct, regardless of what happens at the printer end.

J

What is happening is that your network is closing the print file the program has opened through a time out, sending the file through the printer queue and reopening a new print file for the remainder of report. Whenever a report does processing on the fly, you run into the problem that the time to process exceeds the time out set by the network.

   Although you could manipulate the time out, the easiest solution is to send the report to DOS file through the PDisk command.  When the report is done, then send the DOS file to the printer.  Your code would look something like:

      DOS_NAME=C:\TEMP\REPORT'

      PERFORM 'PDISK ':DOS_NAME

      PRINTER ON

      PRINT Condensed_Esq_Seq:

      Print the rest of the report

      PRINT CHAR(27):'E'   ;* To reset the printer

      PRINTER OFF

      PERFORM 'PDISK PRN'

      PERFORM 'SUPEND EXIT COPY ':DOS_NAME:' LPT1:'

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