I had this same problem with printing to a Okidata printer as well.

Printing the report from the DOS version made all of my problem go away.

Fred Antrobus

On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 09:06, tellef wrote:
> 
> > The problem is that the printer is being sent Windows control codes..
> > which most dot matrix printers run at a slower speed.  The only way to
> > take advantage of high speed dot matrix printers is to print from DOS..
> 
> Not a high-speed dot matrix, this is a 12ppm Okidata laser printer.
> Sorry, should have mentioned the word 'laser'.
> 
> I got a private email from a helpful person who said maybe it was
> as simple as the laser running too hot!  This would explain why it
> stops after the first 400 and then when they try to immediately rerun
> they get maybe 300, then maybe 100, you get the idea.  The laser is
> tucked in a corner, surrounded by file cabinets and other lasers.
> We're going to move it out from the wall, direct a fan at it, and
> see what happens!  I like these non-tech solutions!
> 
> 
> Karen
> 
> 
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