Problem Printing From a VFP Executable

[spayne]

I'm not sure if this is an appropriate question, but the problem is exclusive to VFP so here goes.

One of our data entry personel got a new workstation. She uses a VFP 6.0 executable to print reports to an HP5si network printer. When she does this, the print process is painfully slow. All the reports are sitting there in the queue, but they don't just print one after the other; there is a long pause between each and every page. This even happens for multi-page reports when there is only one item in the queue. This only happens to VFP print jobs. Any other application's reports print fine. We also are not experiencing this problem on any other workstation. The same reports print off just fine on any other workstation.

Also, when these reports are printed from this workstation, the name of the executable appears in the printer's display window. Normally it will say something to the effect of "printing job from Tray 2" or whatever tray it's using.

All of the settings for the printer driver are identical to the ones that are printing OK. We blew off the driver and reinstalled it with no success, so it doesn't appear to be the driver. Any suggestions?

TIA,
Steve

 

[ramani]

Hi
Have you tried the following...

How to hack FRX file to strip printer driver information
faq184-581
ramani
(Subramanian.G),FoxAcc, ramani_g@yahoo.com

 

[spayne]

Ramani,

I was going to ask you why that would make a difference since the report will go to the same printer every time. However, I just looked at one of the reports in question and, yes, the printer info has been stripped. I have done this to certain reports when we've had problems sending them to the network printer and then to PDFWriter driver.

Steve