PFPOSTPRINT irregularity

[Bob Rasmussen]

Don,

The error 5002 is coming from Printwiz.exe. It typically indicates that 
that printwiz has been told to use a printer whose name is not defined in 
Windows. Its standard behavior is to fall back to using the Windows 
default printer; this explains why it worked if the Datamax was the 
default.

If you will run Print Wizard with "/L /Debug" then PW will log debugging 
messages, which could give you a great deal of information about what's 
going wrong. You can view this info in printwiz itself or in the PWUI 
program via View:View log.

Your command line LOOKS like it should start printwiz.exe with the 
parameter:
   /P"DATAMAXE"
(after fP gets done processing backslashes). First, not that the quotes 
are not necessary, because there is no space in the printer name. Case is 
not important. If I had to place a bet, I'd bet that Windows does not have 
the printer named "DatamaxE".

On Fri, 21 Dec 2012, Coleman wrote:

> A client using my fP app. had their PC die Wednesday.  Yesterday their I.T. vendor installed a WIN7 PC, replacing the now dead WINXP machine.  After installing their Datamax bar-code printer on the new WIN7 machine we are seeing the following (I should note the use of PrintWizard v4.0 & fP V4.8 WINDOWS Native):
> 
> Bar-code output from RCLERK correctly prints the requested labels using the following without error:
> PRINTER TYPE "CONCORDIA";PRINTER NAME "DATAMAXE"
> PUTENV "PFPOSTPRINT","F:\\REACT\PRINTWIZAED\PRINTWIZ.EXE /P\"DATAMAXE\""
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> However, bar-code labels requested using the exact same lines as above from RREPORT generate a Windows 5002 error message (system resource not available).  The Datamax bar-code printer is normally not the default printer on this PC.  If I do make it the default printer, I still get the WIN5002 error, press <ENTER> and my labels print.  If the Datamax printer is not this PC's default printer then the labels do not print.  This client's default print is a RICOH copier which has yet to be installed by their I..T. vendor.
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> The only differences I am aware of is the switch from WINXP to WIN7 and when the Datamax printer was installed it was named 
> "DatamaxE" instead of "DATAMAXE" (all caps).  Could case make a difference in either RCLERK/RREPORT or WINXP/WIN7.
> 
> Any suggestions appreciated.
> 
> Don Coleman
> Donald G. Coleman, Consultant
> 402 Andrew Circle
> Indiana, PA 15701
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> (412) 849-2589 (cell) 
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