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ScottM
February 26th, 2002, 10:43 AM
Greetings.
I am attempting to use an ancient Brother HR-10 (daisy wheel) printer for printing on special labels through tractor feed. The printer works using the "generic/text only" (which Brother says is the only driver for their daisy wheel printers in Windows) option in Win98, but I need to know if there is a way to prevent a page feed after a job is printed. (e.g. after the job is printed, it feeds a sheet full of these labels through).
The reason I need to stop this is that these labels are expensive and we are attempting to reduce (preferrably eliminate) waste. The extra sheet feed at the end of the job feed about 15 of these labels through requiring us to carefully feed them back through almost invariable damaging a few each time.
Any assistance you folks can provide will be appreciated.
Thanks.

ScottM

Outcoded
February 26th, 2002, 12:16 PM
How's about setting the default page size to the size of a label? Or if you have more than one label per row (ie labels side-by-side). Set it to the page width * the height of a row of labels.

Platypus
February 26th, 2002, 02:13 PM
The page advance is a nuisance factor with tractor feed. Try to determine if it is done by the printer or the driver. If the Paper Source setting in the generic driver Properties doesn't make any difference whether it is set for Continuous - Page Break, Continuous - No Page Break or Sheet Feed, then the printer itself is issuing the feed when it's set in tractor mode. In this case I can only think there may be a DIPswitch setting on the printer to suppress it, but maybe not.