Printing report on Dot Matrix Printer

upasanisandip
upasanisandip Member Posts: 405
edited 2006-10-26 in NAV/Navision Classic Client
Hi all,
I want to print report on Dot Matrix Printer by setting DOS mode (not on windows printer fonts which is by default ) so that it will print faster.

Anyone knows about this?

Thanks ,
Sandip.

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  • Dennis_Decoene
    Dennis_Decoene Member Posts: 123
    It can be done yes, but it is a pain in the ass...

    What you need to do, is use the report property "DeviceFontName".

    Click the assistedit button, and it will figure itself out. You will see that the printer driver will need to be on the development machine to do that.

    The entire report will be printed in that font, which is the DOS font, no matter what font you use on a label or textbox.

    The problem is not really with Navision, it is windows.

    What you can also do if you know the escape characters, is write a textfile and the send that to the printer in DOS (copy myfile.txt > LPT1). This is an even bigger pain in the ass...

    Hope it helps

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