Landscape Print Job Loses Format

[Nathan Garrett <ngarrett@POWERTEL.COM>]

I am having problems with a landscape SQR changing to portrait and losing
all formatting options after the second page when printing to LPT1 (HP
Laserjet 4 MV).  This problem is not only happening with a custom report
but also several PeopleSoft delivered reports.  The report is being
formatted using setup02.sqc and setup02a.sqc.  I know others have had this
problem in the past (see posting below) but I have tried changing the
printer timeout settings and spool settings in my windows printer setup -
none of these changes had any effect on the problem.

As I print, I can see the SQR spooling output to the print queue.  The SQR
spools several files during the SQR and sends them individually to the
printer.  Every job after the first in unformatted.

Any help in resolving this problem would be greatly appreciated.




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Re: Printer Problem: Lndscp/Prtrt Control & SQRs get spooled as two files

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Subject: Re: Printer Problem: Lndscp/Prtrt Control & SQRs get spooled as
two files
From: Everett James <EMIJAS@AOL.COM>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 23:27:51 -0400

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LOW@CIBC.CA (Low, David) wrote:

>     We are currently having a problem controlling the landscape/portrait
>    orientation when our reports are sent directly to LPT1. This happens
>     with a variety of HP Laserjet printers, and sometimes the report
flips
>     orientation in the middle of printing.
>
>     The problem doesn't seem to occur when the report is directed to a
>     file (.LIS) and then printed. Looking at the report file, I see the
>     required control characters.
>
>    Any help would be appreciated.

John Sayre@GAPINC   wrote:

>We are using SQR3 Workbench and are having problems printing in an NT
>workstation environment. Data is accessed from an IBM mainframe through
>Novell 4.x client. We want to be able to have the SQRs print directly to
HP
>Laser jet printers, however, if we watch the NT print manager while the
>file is being built, we notice that files are being split into two and
>sometimes three files. At the point that the split occurs, the fonts
revert
>to the printer's default fonts and the report becomes a mess.
>
>If we write to a file and then print , we have no problems. But this adds
a
>step to the process we would like to avoid.
>
>Is there a solution?


This was more of a printer properties problem than a SQR problem for me.

My TIMEOUT setting on the printer was too low.  Change the LPT settings in
Control Panel/Printers/Network/Connect/Lpt Settings, (Or your operating
system's equivalent),  to 10 seconds or more.

I'm not sure, but I think SQR sends data to the network printer in bursts
rather than all at once,  or it may be a network traffic problem.  Whatever
the cause for the delay, the CAPTURE command AUTO-ENDCAPs the file after
receiving no data for the specified timeout setting.  Since all the
formatting information was in the first chunk, the rest reverts to the
printer's default settings.

Hope this helps

Everett James