We have a client interested in having Navision print out a mailing label everytime he posted a Sales Order. Writing the code to output the information is not the problem. The problem is the label printer. Everytime it prints a label it then does a page feed. We have tried setting up the printer to custom paper size with no success. If anyone has some ideas, we would greatly appreciate it.
Hi, It is depends on what printer do you use. But the general recomendation: You must setup PRINTER. Some printers has restrictions by paper sizes. You should read printer manual and find out what paper sizes you can print on this printer and how you must setup this sizes. In Navision report you should setup all margins 0 and the section Width and Height should be the same as paper sizes. 100 = 1 mm. Valentin Gvozdev BMI Inc.
We are using an Okidata 393 dot matrix printer. We went into printer properties and set the page size to custom with the size begin the label size. It prints the label but then performs a page feed.
Hi, this properties does not work correctly for most of matrix printers. You should find out how you can change this settings on printer. You should be able to find this in the printer manual. I found some information on this web: http://orpheus-1.ucsd.edu/systems/help/trouble/oki393.htm Valentin Gvozdev BMI Inc. Edited by - Valentin Gvozdev on 7/9/00 4:27:04 AM
It’s going back a bit so my memory is a little hazy but I had a similar problem with a specialised barcode label printer. It too was printing on every other label. For reasons to do with the sending of font control codes to the printer, I ended up generating a text file on disk and then printing it through a DOS command line. A by product of this was to fix the problem with form feeds. A bit tacky but it worked which is the important thing. I think the problem is because Navision is all geared up for laser printers which (in my experience anyway) seem to like to have a form feed at the end of every print.