long pause(s) before printing in an EPSON-LQ-300 PRINTER

al · Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 1

I ran an old clipper/dbase program on my windows xp. aside from the
"compressed" screen, i noticed that when i clicked on the print option from
my application, it did not print immediately (almost a minute) before it
finally printed. how can i correct this ?

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Sinna · Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 191

al wrote:
> I ran an old clipper/dbase program on my windows xp. aside from the
> "compressed" screen, i noticed that when i clicked on the print option from
> my application, it did not print immediately (almost a minute) before it
> finally printed. how can i correct this ?

Perhaps something with print spooling?
Try to let the app print directly. See the printer properties in Windows.

Sinna

Derek · Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 1

On Sep 12, 7:38 pm, al wrote:
> I ran an old clipper/dbase program on my windows xp. aside from the
> "compressed" screen, i noticed that when i clicked on the print option from
> my application, it did not print immediately (almost a minute) before it
> finally printed. how can i correct this ?

The simplest way is to print ASCII character 12 which means "Start New
Page" to your Epson. Sending that should make the printer print
immediately.
The BASIC way of doing the would be

PRINT CHR$(12);

Unfortunately I no longer remember the Clipper code to do this but at
a Clipper newsgroup should be able to help.

Cheers

Derek

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