AMOORE@WABASH.BITNET (01/18/90)
Hello, has anyone out there set up a report in R:BASE that will print envelopes
to a laser printer? We just installed a DataProducts LZR-1230 printer with
an envelope feeder. We have a report setup in RBASE with the following
configure options: Lines per page:24 Report Footer Form Feed After: YES, we
have 1 breakpoint with no formfeeds on it. On our edit screen we have a PH with
a variable located for landscape printing, then we have 23 blank H1 lines and
one H1 line with the variable EVLINE3 located on it that prints the full
address (3 or 4 lines) without blank lines, followed by a blank RF line (which
is only there so that a FF will be sent after the last envelope prints). the
variables used to make up the one located variable are:
ecityst = ('city'+","& 'state' & 'homezip')
ename = ('title' & 'fname_mi' & 'lname')
evline1 = (ljs(.ename,58) + 'address1')
evline2 = (ljs(.evline1,95) + 'address2')
evline3 = (ljs(.evline2,120) + .ecityst)
The envelopes print beautifully, the one catch is that we get a blank envelope
between each printed envelope. I have already talked with R:BASE technical
support and their suggestions of 1)varying the # lines per page on the
configure screen and 2)removing some of the H1 lines to make it less than
the # lines per page didn't seem to make any difference. I have had the
Configure #lines per page set from 18 to 30 and still get a blank envelope. I
have also tried placing my variable EVLINE3 on the 20th H1 line, still no luck.
HELP, we don't want to have to pick blank envelopes out of a 2000+ envelope run!
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WABASH COMPUTER SERVICES
Alice Moore AMoore@Wabash
Coord/Administrative Computing (317) 364-4303
Wabash College
Crawfordsville, IN 47933
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