Tractor Fed label roll gets 3.3 inch feed at end of page? How do.

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Pampas58

Once again I begin what seems like a simple project and reality hits me with
a two by four on the back of the head.

THE ISSUE:
Continuous form, custom product and serial number label for our products
that feeds a Page Break at the end of the page in letter size page. I’ve
used the Label Wizard and I defined the label as continuous, yet after 6
labels that print perfectly, I get a feed of 3.375 inches.

I’ve looked everywhere in Access and I cannot find a way to override this
automatic feed.

THE SOFTWARE:
Access 2002 SP3

THE PRINTER:
Okidata Microline ML591, Dot Matrix 24 Pin, Rear Tractor Feed, Continuous Form

HOW WAS THE LABEL CREATED?
1) I used the NEW command, selected LABEL WIZ
2) Defined the label to the custom label our marketing department had printed
3) Set to SINGLE COLUMN, Continuous
4) Located the data fields where I needed them

If anyone has any ideas how I might be able to shut off the feed so it is
really continuous tractor fed with no page break I’d appreciate your help.

Pampas…

p.s., if anyone wants to see the actual database send me an e-mail and I’ll
send you the data.
 
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Larry Linson

Pampas58 said:
Once again I begin what seems like a simple project and reality hits me
with
a two by four on the back of the head.

THE ISSUE:
Continuous form, custom product and serial number label for our products
that feeds a Page Break at the end of the page in letter size page. I've
used the Label Wizard and I defined the label as continuous, yet after 6
labels that print perfectly, I get a feed of 3.375 inches.

I've looked everywhere in Access and I cannot find a way to override this
automatic feed.

THE SOFTWARE:
Access 2002 SP3

THE PRINTER:
Okidata Microline ML591, Dot Matrix 24 Pin, Rear Tractor Feed, Continuous
Form

HOW WAS THE LABEL CREATED?
1) I used the NEW command, selected LABEL WIZ
2) Defined the label to the custom label our marketing department had
printed
3) Set to SINGLE COLUMN, Continuous
4) Located the data fields where I needed them

If anyone has any ideas how I might be able to shut off the feed so it is
really continuous tractor fed with no page break I'd appreciate your help.

Pampas.

Some impact printers will not print at what they believe to be "on the
perforations", either never, or as an option, but I am not familiar with
this one to know if that is what you are experiencing. This may well be a
printer setting that you'll have to determine and change -- check your
printer's user manual or ask the manufacturer if that is the case. Ask
them, as a matter of fact, about the feed...

One thing I'd wager... you don't have an _Access_ problem, but a printer, or
printer driver software, problem.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Office Access MVP
 
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Pampas58

Larry,

Thanks for your reply. I spent over an hour with the OKIDATA people on the
phone and worked through the various scenarios of the printer. The feature
in the ML591 (in LQ standard Emulation set from the factory) for skipping
over perforation is set to NO, and it works.

I wrote a quick module to test it:

Open “LPT1†for Output as #1

For N = 1 to 500
Print #1, “This Is a Test of the Perforation Skipâ€
Next

Close #1

It typed right over the perforation with no problem.

Also, when I change from Letter (only one of about 8 options that Access 2002
hooked up to the OKIDATA gives me) I get 6 labels then the skip over the line,
which is a total distance from bottom of last line printed to top of next
line printed of 1.25 inches.

I think, and I say this carefully, that the distance is the sum of two
parameters: 1) the normal distance between the last line and the first which
is 0.625 or thereabout, and 2) The minimum top margin Access will let me
enter into the report of 0.627 inches.

Do you have any suggestions of where I can look. The test I ran seemed to
make sense and prove that the printer can and does ignore the perforations,
if I just simply send it a command to print. The continuous form on a
tractor feed seems to be a problem for Access; there are no options for that
in the paper size selection.

Your help, and anyone else’s help on this is greatly appreciated.

Signed: Frustrated in KC, on St. Patrick’s day… Pampas58


Larry said:
Once again I begin what seems like a simple project and reality hits me
with
[quoted text clipped - 27 lines]

Some impact printers will not print at what they believe to be "on the
perforations", either never, or as an option, but I am not familiar with
this one to know if that is what you are experiencing. This may well be a
printer setting that you'll have to determine and change -- check your
printer's user manual or ask the manufacturer if that is the case. Ask
them, as a matter of fact, about the feed...

One thing I'd wager... you don't have an _Access_ problem, but a printer, or
printer driver software, problem.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Office Access MVP
 
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Larry Linson

Some get caught between a "rock and a hard place", others between Access,
Windows, and a printer, it seems. I wish I had a solution for you (other
than... well, Print #1 seems to work for what you want to do... a little
clumsier that a Label template report) but unfortunately I don't.

I gave away my last impact printer... a nice little IBM proprinter, after
having not used it since the days of DOS 6 and Win 3.1.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Office Access MVP

Pampas58 said:
Larry,

Thanks for your reply. I spent over an hour with the OKIDATA people on
the
phone and worked through the various scenarios of the printer. The
feature
in the ML591 (in LQ standard Emulation set from the factory) for skipping
over perforation is set to NO, and it works.

I wrote a quick module to test it:

Open "LPT1" for Output as #1

For N = 1 to 500
Print #1, "This Is a Test of the Perforation Skip"
Next

Close #1

It typed right over the perforation with no problem.

Also, when I change from Letter (only one of about 8 options that Access
2002
hooked up to the OKIDATA gives me) I get 6 labels then the skip over the
line,
which is a total distance from bottom of last line printed to top of next
line printed of 1.25 inches.

I think, and I say this carefully, that the distance is the sum of two
parameters: 1) the normal distance between the last line and the first
which
is 0.625 or thereabout, and 2) The minimum top margin Access will let me
enter into the report of 0.627 inches.

Do you have any suggestions of where I can look. The test I ran seemed to
make sense and prove that the printer can and does ignore the
perforations,
if I just simply send it a command to print. The continuous form on a
tractor feed seems to be a problem for Access; there are no options for
that
in the paper size selection.

Your help, and anyone else's help on this is greatly appreciated.

Signed: Frustrated in KC, on St. Patrick's day. Pampas58


Larry said:
Once again I begin what seems like a simple project and reality hits me
with
[quoted text clipped - 27 lines]

Some impact printers will not print at what they believe to be "on the
perforations", either never, or as an option, but I am not familiar with
this one to know if that is what you are experiencing. This may well be a
printer setting that you'll have to determine and change -- check your
printer's user manual or ask the manufacturer if that is the case. Ask
them, as a matter of fact, about the feed...

One thing I'd wager... you don't have an _Access_ problem, but a printer,
or
printer driver software, problem.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Office Access MVP
 

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