Carol, This is something I personally have not tried to do in Access myself - this type of subject were issue that are much easier to tackle and deal with in other media languages, such as assembler, C++, and similar, where you can have direct control of info sent to system devices.
BUT after looking at Microsoft's knowledgebase of articles dealing with Acess2K, one thing you might have to look at doing is to make a file with the hex characters, and embed it in your report footer like an image or similar bit-mapped object. Since Access is really oriented to working with regular text based characters rather than binary codes, this seems, at least to me, to be the only way you can tackle a problem of dealing with hex character strings. Again, I have not had to do this type of operation, at least in Access, but this seems to be one of the few ways of tackling this type of issue. One article I found that you might want to look at is: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid =%2fsearch%2fviewDoc.aspx%3fdocID%3dKC.Q198463%26dialogID%3d4202257%26iterationID%3d1%26sessionID%3danonymous%7c3734140 The search and related info I used can be found at: http://search.support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?Catalog=LCID%3D1033%26CDID%3DEN-US-KB%26PRODLISTSRC%3DON&Product=acc2000&Query=report%2520control%2520characters&Queryc=report+control+characters&withinResults=false&srchstep=0&KeywordType=ALL&Titles=false&numDays &maxResults=25 Hope this helps, Ralph This is an Access 2000/2002 VBA question that I have posted to numerous Access forums with no answer received. I'm hoping that someone in this group can help or knows of someone who can help. I have a requirement to send a hex string to a POS receipt printer from Star Micronics. Once the printer receives this character, it is supposed to cut the roll paper. The vendor's tech support has been of little help. They claim they are not programmers. Question: I have tried inserting a text box control in the report footer and inserting the hex characters in it via VBA code but this does not work. I have tried using both a regular font and a control font that I presume was installed with the printer driver. What is the standard way used to send special control characters to a printer? Should I be using a text box or some other control? Thanks. Carol Warman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
