EPSON STYLUS COLOR 740 PRINTER

[BRENT M. GARDNER]

ANYONE,

I recently purchased a new Epson printer, my HP(only 2 years old)
gave out on me. I run pb3.5 programs each day that print a page
on printer, then lprint chr$(12), a form feed to eject page.
The problem is, everytime I physically turn off printer, a get
a blank page ejected. This does not happen, if the last page I
print is done through "Windows", only PB3.5, OR QBASIC? Epson
suggests that POWERBASIC my have a fix?

Any help will be appreciated.

Thank You,


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[Mike Doty]

LPRINT CHR$(13);CHR$(12);

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[Lance Edmonds]

To expand on Mikes answer slightly... it sounds like you have not included a semi-colon in the PRINT# or LPRINT statement that sends the CHR$(12), ie:

LPRINT CHR$(12)

This sends CHR$(12) followed by CHR$(13,10). These last two characters will be placed into the print buffer ready to appear on the "next" page, hence your additional page of paper.

If you add a semi-colon, you'll avoid sending those two bytes, and you should not get an additional page of paper.

LPRINT CHR$(12);

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Lance
PowerBASIC Support
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[BRENT M. GARDNER]

Originally posted by Mike Doty:
LPRINT CHR$(13);CHR$(12);

MIKE,

Thankyou very much. I have fought this for 5 months. It works
with my pb3.5 program and cc program.

Yours Truly,

Brent

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