FilePro 5.0 Hardcopy Print Problem

[Jim Asman]

--------------- Original Message ---------------
At 08:58A Mon May 21 2007, clay at andycomputer.com wrote:

> 
> I have been fighting a problem with filepro the last couple of months.
> 
> 
> I have been replacing old LPT Hp Printers with newer printers that use
> USB.
> 
> Untill I realized we had a newer version of filepro and it would
> print to a 
> 
> Windows printQue I have been sharing the printers and remapping the
> share
> 
> to LPT1 on the PC. We are running the DOS version of Filepro on a
> 2003
> 
> File Server and WinXP Clients. Several of these printers no longer
> support the PCL 
> 
> codes so they could not be used. I have purchased a HP Color Laserjet
> 2605 that 
> 
> supports PCL code still and cannot get it to print a (H) Hardcopy of a
> screen. I have
> 
> sent the output to \hardcopy.txt to see if I can find the problem. When
> hardcopy is pressed
> the output to File is something like this
>  
> <ESC> <InitPrinterCodes>
> report info is ln here 
> several lines
> etc
> etc
>  
>  
>  
> 
> then when I Exit back to the main menu after doing the hardcopy and
> reopen the 
> hardcopy.txt it looks like this
>  
> <ESC> <InitPrinterCodes>
> report info is ln here 
> several lines
> etc
> etc
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
> <ESC>
>  
>  
> 
> Which tells me that the printer needs a Escape code to end the spooler
> and print, and
> 
> the escape code is not being sent until I exit to a main menu. The page
> does print after
> exiting to a Main menu when the output is set to 
> win:\\computername\printershare
>  
> 
> And I guess my question would be is there anyway to have the Hardcopy
> send
> a ESC char after the print without backing out to a main menu?
>  

Clay,

As far as I can recall, the 2605 is a PCL6 only printer, and therefore
problematic with filepro. Check your specs to verify whether it supports
PCL5 internally. My guess is that the windows driver is somehow creating
simple text output.

To address your question, set PFHCFF ON in your config file and
see if that fixes you up.



Jim 
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