The secret no one will tell you is that every version of a driver can and usually (just like other software) will give you different options. You should be able to go to manufacturers site and download the current. Usually, unless they have just written buggy features the most current driver has the most features. This is why when you get a driver for a printer that does what you want you had best save it somewhere.. burn to cd - have it on a backuped up network or ???
I know, we have found this out the hard way also.
Hope this helps Jim
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Uh oh, I'm in trouble. In Win98 (the good old days), you could define a Custom paper size for a dot matrix printer. That way you could define a 'special' printer that would already have in it a paper size of 7" long. Then you could print to it in windows and not worry about the printer's page size setting.
Now I'm in XP and it seems you can't do this? When I go into the printer's properties, you go to 'Paper/Quality', click the 'Advanced' button. Under 'Paper Size' there is a choice for 'Custom', but when you pick it you never get to specify the width/length settings!
This is an Epson dot matrix, so I'm using the builtin drivers from Windows in both cases (win98 and xp). If I cannot pick a paper size in XP, do I have to print the data to a file? Will my Epson not do a form feed by itself?
Karen
