Receipt printers and endless paper reel

xss · Post by **xss** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 3:28 am

Hi,

I investigated Stimulsoft Reports.Net Trial about 3 weeks ago and it really rocks - except in one point. We are developing an electronic cash register application and our customers use receipt/kitchen printers mainly. The common receipt paper size is about 80mm x 3276mm. So i created the report and set unlimited height = true and paper size = custom with no success. The report is still using the page height and at print, the whole receipt reel runs through and page/report footers get rendered at the end of paper. When i set the page height to 100mm for example, the report is still rendered "in pages". What we need is that the entire report is rendered in one page and that the height adjusts to the final output automatically. Thats the only thing why we are using Crystal Reports at this point in time.

If this is possible or would be possible in the foreseeable future then there's nothing that can hold us back of using your reporting solution.

Best regards.

Post by **Jan** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 9:14 am

Hello,

Please use following code before printing:

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Stimulsoft.Report.Print.StiPrintProvider.SetPaperSource = false;

Thank you.

xss · Post by **xss** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:02 am

Thank you, i check it out...

xss · Post by **xss** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:48 am

hm...I tried your piece of code at application startup and at StiReport.Printing event additionally, but without success - the paper reel still runs through.

PaperKind=Custom
PageHeight=3276
UnlimitedHeight=True

Is it possible, that the trial watermark "demo" in the middle of the page is responsible for that behavior?
Or should i wait and test it out with your next release? I checked the change log announcement for 2009.2 and it says, that something has been fixed with unlimited height.

Thanks in advance.

P.S.: When a subreport inside a subreport is used, an IndexOutOfRangeException occurs.

Post by **Jan** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 3:40 am

Hello,

We have made some changes in our code. Please get build from 15 June (when it will be available). Set PaperKind to Custom. Set PageHeight to required height.

Thank you.

xss · Post by **xss** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 6:34 am

Nice, seems to work, thank you. I think it depends on the watermark in the trial version, because after that it stops to print.

We gonna change to Stimulsoft Reports.Net in a few weeks.

So long...
XSS

Post by **Andrew** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 3:12 am

Hello,

It is set after the last graphic element is output. In case it is the watermark.

Thank you.

DeanP · Post by **DeanP** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 3:09 pm

I am having a similar problem. I have updated to 2009.3 but the Epson TM-T88IV printer seems to print about 12 inches and quits.

I have:

Page Size = Custom
Page Height = 40 inches
Unlimited Height = true

I have set Stimulsoft.Report.Print.StiPrintProvider.SetPaperSource = false in my code.

Any suggestions?

xss · Post by **xss** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 10:15 am

hi deanp,

we had a similiar problem with the epson tm-t81 and it was the printer driver (imho crap).

please check following driver settings:
1) the paper size u're using in the report must be declared in the printer settings exactly - otherwise he doe's what he wants to.
2) after setting an custom paper size we had to adjust the horizontal print position in the driver settings. -3.0 mm in our case.
3) try to change the paper conservation in the document settings - we had to use bottom in our case.
4) if u don't need to cut at page ends, u can change the paper source to document(?) in the document settings.
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99) use a different printer as we do. :biggrin:

maybe this will help u...hopefully! :dreamer:

greetz xss

DeanP · Post by **DeanP** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 1:14 pm

Thanks for your help xss. I think I got it to work after many meters of paper. Unfortunately the client has many of these printers so I am glad you offered your experience and saved what little hair I have left.

Thanks again.