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Thread ID: 59322	2005-06-28 09:43:00	Panasonic Printer	phppick (8431)	Press F1

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367709	2005-07-07 05:17:00	HI, Graham L: First many thanks for your support & sorry for troubling u. I tried with changing properties,RAW (FF append),RAW (FF auto). But no change. Do i need to include anything in my PHP File? i am unable to get 1123 drivers and tried with 1131. actually my printer is 1121. I am using Win XP & Win ME for testing. Thanks Jen	phppick (8431)
367710	2005-07-07 05:41:00	I wasn't intending that you load the 1123 driver . . . whatever driver the printer is working with should have the same setting possibilities . ;) Can you print two or more tickets and have the first one(s) come out correctly? Have you tried creating a "FF" file (using Ctrl/Z as in my correction) ? The WinME version of "DOS" will certainly make the file . Then copy FF . dat LPT1: would send it to the printer (If your printer is on LPT1, of course) . If the first ticket (or tickets) come(s) out correctly, with only one "hanging" , and sending the formfeed file makes it eject we're there . Back in the printer Properties pages . . . one of the pages lets you chose spooling or not . Have you tried the option "Print directly to printer" (something like that) ? [This is desperation . . . this is one of those silly things which should be so simple . :( ]	Graham L (2)
367711	2005-07-07 11:20:00	Hi, Graham L: Many Thanks for support, I tried FF . dat option . i did like this . in command window C:\>COPY CON:FF . dat ^L^Z and then Enter . Its saying 1 file(s) copied, but when i copy using C:\> copy FF . dat LPT1: (my printer exists on LPT1) its saying "The system cannot find the file specified . " I tried with Option "Print directly to printer" also . But no use . Yah . exactly, i know that its very simple . becoz my lack of knowledge with printing . . i having trouble & giving other trouble . . Sorry for that . When i print 2 or more ticket, first one is ok . I decided to test the code with other printers . i am not sure, hope something helps or even i will get some idea with that . Thanks Jen	phppick (8431)
367712	2005-07-08 02:30:00	You need another space in that copy command ;) . The copy is from the device CON: ("console" which is the Teletype -- keyboard and monitor these days) to a file called FF . dat . I don 't know what got copied, but it most likely wasn't a formfeed, and not to the file we wanted to create . (also check where the file is created . . . and try a dir * . dat to see that the file has been made, and is 1 byte long . ) It looks good if you get the first one of two out correctly . ;) The FF . dat file might be all you need . A little batch file and an icon . . . ;) If only life was always easy . Computers were invented to keep us humble .	Graham L (2)
367713	2005-07-09 03:02:00	I tried the command without the space this morning . As I should have realised yesterday, it copied a file, with the name FF . dat but the name is ignored, because CON: is not a file structured device from CON: (keyboard) to "nowhere", which probably defaults to the source, CON: . No new file is created anywhere . It's all very logical . CP/M is good . :cool: :thumbs:	Graham L (2)
367714	2005-07-09 04:26:00	I know that you are looking for a technical solution, but sometimes it is easier to simply add a blank ASCII character at the start of the next one or two lines just to make the printer feel good about advancing the form a little further . If blanks don't work, use asterisks, pipe symbols or just full stops, the clients won't examine their tickets that closely . The first rule of economic computing is: "beware of creeping elegance . " :waughh: Cheers Billy 8-{) :2cents:	Billy T (70)
367715	2005-07-09 04:55:00	I'm trying to get a crude fix . . . but not that crude . The trouble with Billy's blunt instrument is that it can lead to a 50% waste of forms . It appears to work properly with "n-1" forms (when n = 2, at least, so it's on the right track . . . it's just getting the nth form to eject which is the problem . I've been through this sort of thing a few times, and it does have to be right .	Graham L (2)
367716	2005-07-25 05:57:00	Hi, We have decided to Use EPSON LQ-680 Pro Printer for this Ticket Printing. Becoz others using the same.. We have not yet tried printing with this Model.. (for clarity see the intial post in this Thread) I got doubt that, is this printer also give problems like Panasonic..?? or works fine.. i.e scrolling out the ticket once printed? anybody got idea? Anyway thanks for the support for my previous questions.. Thanks all Thanks Jen	phppick (8431)
367717	2005-07-26 01:05:00	A nasty thought occurred to me as I looked at the control panel of a similar Panasonic printer at the bottom of a heap of equipment. ;) Since the printer is handy to the operator, why not just press the FF button when there's a single form to eject? (I have a suspicion that that's why Panasonic put it there. :cool:) It's all very well to do everything in software (and I'm pretty sure my FF file would have worked if you had put a space in that command line) but sometimes the hardware way is quicker.	Graham L (2)
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