I have been using Rawprint for a while to print to dot matrix printers
with no issue. All of a sudden it starts skipping lines, not
recognizing control codes and all sorts of things randomly going wrong.
Reprinting causes a different problem and it doesn't happen at any
particular place. The file that it is trying to print looks perfect.
Any ideas?
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On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Jeff Johnson <jeff@san-dc.com> wrote:
> I have been using Rawprint for a while to print to dot matrix printers
> with no issue.
This Rawprint? http://www.perilous.com/
All of a sudden it starts skipping lines, not recognizing control codes
> and all sorts of things randomly going wrong.
Well, come on. Something changed. New OS? Different machines? Different
printers?
> Reprinting causes a different problem and it doesn't happen at any
> particular place.
Have you turned everything off and then on again? What else have you tried?
Is the Rawprint file the same as your most recent backup? Have you checked
for malware? Wiggled the cables? Tried a raw copy (COPY /B) of the file to
the printer?
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Author: Jeff Johnson
Posted: 2013-09-05 12:59:00 Link
I am going to replace rawprint.vcx with something that does the same
thing. I recompiled the project and it does the same thing. What is
happening is that it is skipping blocks of print lines. This is a very
large job and it will print fine for 25% of the job and then start
skipping random blocks of print.
So I am just going to get something that does the same thing. The .vcx
is no longer supported.
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On 09/05/2013 10:03 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> I have been using Rawprint for a while to print to dot matrix printers
> with no issue. All of a sudden it starts skipping lines, not
> recognizing control codes and all sorts of things randomly going
> wrong. Reprinting causes a different problem and it doesn't happen at
> any particular place. The file that it is trying to print looks perfect.
>
> Any ideas?
>
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Did the settings on the printer itself change, by any chance?
I have reports formatted by the program, and others that rely on the
OkiData's settings (these were decisions made by the client). He
learned to check the printer setup first when a problem appeared.
Dan
On 09/05/13 10:03 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> I have been using Rawprint for a while to print to dot matrix printers
> with no issue. All of a sudden it starts skipping lines, not
> recognizing control codes and all sorts of things randomly going wrong.
> Reprinting causes a different problem and it doesn't happen at any
> particular place. The file that it is trying to print looks perfect.
>
> Any ideas?
>
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Dan: The file is perfect and the printer is printing fine, just not
printing random lines of print. It doesn't appear to be a printer
problem and since the file is perfect it is not a VFP problem.
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On 09/05/2013 11:01 AM, Dan Covill wrote:
> Did the settings on the printer itself change, by any chance?
>
> I have reports formatted by the program, and others that rely on the
> OkiData's settings (these were decisions made by the client). He
> learned to check the printer setup first when a problem appeared.
>
> Dan
>
> On 09/05/13 10:03 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
>> I have been using Rawprint for a while to print to dot matrix printers
>> with no issue. All of a sudden it starts skipping lines, not
>> recognizing control codes and all sorts of things randomly going wrong.
>> Reprinting causes a different problem and it doesn't happen at any
>> particular place. The file that it is trying to print looks perfect.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>
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On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Dan Covill <dcovill@san.rr.com> wrote:
> Did the settings on the printer itself change, by any chance?
>
> I have reports formatted by the program, and others that rely on the
> OkiData's settings (these were decisions made by the client). He learned
> to check the printer setup first when a problem appeared.
>
Until we recently retired them, Okidata 292's were one client's go-to print
device with "NCR" multi-part paper. Loud as machine guns :) There was one
that had a bad habit of falling into Epson-emulation mode after printing
stuff from another application, and needed the "turn-it-off, count to 15
Mississippis, turn-it-on" treatment.
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On 09/05/2013 12:36 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Dan Covill <dcovill@san.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> Did the settings on the printer itself change, by any chance?
>>
>> I have reports formatted by the program, and others that rely on the
>> OkiData's settings (these were decisions made by the client). He learned
>> to check the printer setup first when a problem appeared.
>>
> Until we recently retired them, Okidata 292's were one client's go-to print
> device with "NCR" multi-part paper. Loud as machine guns :) There was one
> that had a bad habit of falling into Epson-emulation mode after printing
> stuff from another application, and needed the "turn-it-off, count to 15
> Mississippis, turn-it-on" treatment.
>
>
Ted: The behaviour of this one does not conform to anything like
settings changes. They are printing about 75 invoices during the run.
The first three will be perfect, then number four has the top of the
invoice and the bottom of another invoice. Then it will print the
heading of an invoice and the footer with nothing in between. It appears
to be corruption or possible a change to a windows API call. In any
event, I am changing programs.
Thanks,
Jeff
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On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Jeff Johnson <jeff@san-dc.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Ted: The behaviour of this one does not conform to anything like
> settings changes. They are printing about 75 invoices during the run. The
> first three will be perfect, then number four has the top of the invoice
> and the bottom of another invoice. Then it will print the heading of an
> invoice and the footer with nothing in between. It appears to be corruption
> or possible a change to a windows API call. In any event, I am changing
> programs.
Let us know what you find to work with, and how it works out.
It sounds like a problem with spooling, or the handling of larger files.
Hope the new program doesn't get snagged the same way.
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On 09/05/2013 04:23 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Jeff Johnson <jeff@san-dc.com> wrote:
>
>>> Ted: The behaviour of this one does not conform to anything like
>> settings changes. They are printing about 75 invoices during the run. The
>> first three will be perfect, then number four has the top of the invoice
>> and the bottom of another invoice. Then it will print the heading of an
>> invoice and the footer with nothing in between. It appears to be corruption
>> or possible a change to a windows API call. In any event, I am changing
>> programs.
>
> Let us know what you find to work with, and how it works out.
>
> It sounds like a problem with spooling, or the handling of larger files.
> Hope the new program doesn't get snagged the same way.
>
>
>
Ted: It looks exactly like a spooling problem. Gaps in the spooled
data. What could cause such a thing? I may have mentioned this has
been working for some time and just started last week. Because it is so
critical to his business this is the only application he runs on this
particular machine.
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On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Jeff Johnson <jeff@san-dc.com> wrote:
>
>> Ted: It looks exactly like a spooling problem. Gaps in the spooled
> data. What could cause such a thing?
Ye, gods! What could cause Windows to go flaky?
> I may have mentioned this has been working for some time and just started
> last week.
I'll ask again, what changed? New software installed? Upgrade to Office?
New virus scanner? Power failures due to thunderstorms? (We had a couple
clients lose hardware last week. Sometimes hardware's flaky after T-storm)
> Because it is so critical to his business this is the only application he
> runs on this particular machine.
Good to know. It's probably not a recent MS patch, as those are the 2nd
Tuesday. It's worth scanning the machine for malware. Clean out all the
temp files. Defrag the drive. Check to make sure the NIC is well-seated, if
appropriate. And replace the network cable.
Oh, and try the app on another machine to see if you see the same behavior.
That will confirm it's the machine, and not something funky in the network
or printer's buffer or something.
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