Hi Karen, Ever consider several print statements in your program with a "pause for" in between Example print invoice where CustomerNo between 1 and 500 pause for 30 print invoice where CustomerNo between 501 and 1000 pause for 30 etc This would give the printer and spooler time to catch up.
Bernie Lis ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: RBASE-L Mailing List Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 9:56 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Printing a whole buncha reports Razzak: That's not my problem -- I WANT to get thousands of pages. I have thousands of monthly statements to print out. Back when the client upgraded to 7.5, I converted the 6.5++ windows report, made no changes to it because it converted fine. But when going to the printer (the same workstation / network laser printer that is used in 6.5), 7.5 would print maybe 300 or 400 and then stop with the error message. We tried it about 5 times and it would stop in different places, never at the same point. Obviously this is hard to test. Takes alot of waste paper and alot of time to go through 300 copies and then have it stop. So I'm hoping for some actual experiences that this works great in current 7.6, or some tips in either printer setup or computer setup or changes to the report itself so that it can print as wonderfully as it does in 6.5. Since the report was originally a 6.5++ report, we have no graphics in there. A few lines and boxes but no pictures. One-page report. I also considered turning this into one 2000-page report, rather than 2000 one-page reports, but has anyone tried printing out a 2000-page report? Karen >Anyone doing this and having no problems at all getting thousands >of reports to print? Using the latest updates and builds, when a 6.5++ for Windows report is properly converted to 7.6 or Turbo V-8 for Windows, one must carefully review "Report Margins" as well as all controls/objects within each band. In addition, adjusting the height of "Page Footer" and "Report Footer" bands accordingly should NOT generate thousands of pages. Last but not least, make sure that appropriate printer(s) are configured on each workstation. Very Best R:egards, Razzak.
