Check printing

[smi4975]

Hello,
We are using the standard session - tfcmg1260s000 (Tansfer payment) to print our checks.
I have the following queries:
1. Till now we were using the Inkjet printer to print the checks and the size of the paper being used was 81/2 * 6. Attached is the report setup of the same.
2. Now we are switching over to a letter size paper. The only difference in the new pre-printed stationary is the payment record part after the check which is almost 24 lines in length.
3. we created a new paper type with size 81/2 * 11 and defined the font type for the same as width 94 and length 66.
4. No other change has been done to the report.
5. When a batch with invoice lines < 6 is printed we get the report output correctly. The details are printed and then the main check.
6. But if the invoice line exceed 6 then as per the existing setup only the firt page prints correctly - by voiding the check but the subsequent pages are all messed up.

I tried changing the page length on the report , margin, increasing the footer size , adding new footer etc...but nothing seems to work.

Can someone help me out with this. I have literally tried everything possible except for altering the report script.


Also the same if i try to redirect to a windows printer and then print it on the pre-printed stationary without any changes it works fine.

could you explain what is that i'm missing?
Attached are the screen shots of the report layout setup,and the check format.

[mark_h]

What happens when it goes to the second page? Do you get creeping down the page to where it starts crossing page boundaries? I do not think you are missing anything it is just a matter of getting all of them aligned. When I look at the format there I see page length of 42 with a footer of 29 - why not -1 for the page length and footer length? I thought the page length included footer - which makes your total 71?

Don't really know a whole lot about the session, but your total lines printed need to match 66. Something else I also do is check formfeed on all our printers. Way back in 99(at conversion time) I found some baan reports did not have 66 lines(some less and some more) - they tended to get ugly after the first page. I checked this on the device and most worked fine after that.

[smi4975]

Guess what??? The form feed option works fine. I really don't know what is the logic...B'cos as u suggested i did the page lenght as -1 and the footer to be 29 but it still did not work. I was having problems while rolling over to the second page...since the paper type is not a form feed i did not check it...but as per your trial i checked it and tried and it worked fine!!

Thank you so much. Was a good learning though...

[mark_h]

Yeah - but now neither one of us knows why it worked in your case. On some of the baan reports everything looked fine on the report, but we got that page creep issue. Checking that little box solved my problem and yours, but a mystery as to why.

I also just remembered that in our case we had the same type printer at 2 different sites - one worked and one didn't with the standard report. The magic formfeed box solved the problem.