Recent content by epalmer850

What model is the matrix printer?

Sounds like you have a font command in the macro, and not font command in the data.

Are you using DCPS (the driver package for OpenVMS)? If so, it has a n-up feature.

Something in the code is causing the job to break the page boundary. It my be one or two extra lines before the terminating form feed. You need to do some line counting here. Many printer have a Don't Print Blank Pages setting.

I'm going to bet the files contain PCL copy commands, and the printer was changed from parallel to ethernet. When connected parallel, unterminated jobs sent back to back would appear as one job to the printer, so this method would work. With ethernet, any job sent to the printer is clearly...

I saw this when using UltraEdit- it was converting nulls to spaces when I switched between hex and text mode. There is an option to fix this.

You cannot enable duplex in the middle of a page. Duplex is one of several commands that work only at the beginning of a page, before any printable text. But, Word print fields are processed at the beginning of the job, so this should work, right? However, the printer driver will send some...

UltraEdit http://www.ultraedit.com will do that and more.

It's probably getting through, but... The copy command is only honored if it is at the beginning of the job. If you are putting this in the middle, it will be ignored. Try adding some printable text {PRINT 27"&l2X Copy=2"} to ensure that the print field is getting processed and sent...