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Hi,
When I try to execute a character mode report using a network printer the report does not run correctly (prt sheet size, escape sequences etc.).
There are three machines involved in this problem:
1) A Windows XP Professional running reports developer. This machine was used to develop the report. It will be reffered as WXP in the future. These are version details of this machine:
Report Builder 6.0.8.24.0
ORACLE Server Release 8.0.6.0.0
Oracle Procedure Builder 6.0.8.21.0
Oracle ORACLE PL/SQL V8.0.6.3.0 - Production
Oracle CORE Version 4.0.6.0.0 - Production
Oracle Tools Integration Services 6.0.8.18.0
Oracle Tools Common Area 6.0.8.18.0
Oracle Toolkit 2 for Windows 32-bit platforms 6.0.8.24.0
Resource Object Store 6.0.8.21.0
Oracle Help 6.0.8.24.0
Oracle Sqlmgr 6.0.8.18.0
Oracle Query Builder 6.0.7.1.0 - Production
PL/SQL Editor (c) WinMain Software (www.winmain.com), v1.0 (Production)
Oracle ZRC 6.0.8.22.0
Oracle Express 6.0.8.3.5
Oracle XML Parser 1.0.2.1.0 Production
Oracle Virtual Graphics System 6.0.5.38.0
Oracle Image 6.0.8.20.0
Oracle Multimedia Widget 6.0.8.20.0
Oracle Tools GUI Utilities 6.0.8.20.1
2) A Windows 2000 Server machine running reports runtime and accessed via windows terminal server. It will be reffered as W2000 in the future. These are version details of this machine:
Report Builder 6.0.8.24.0
ORACLE Server Release 8.0.6.0.0
Oracle Procedure Builder 6.0.8.21.0
Oracle ORACLE PL/SQL V8.0.6.3.0 - Production
Oracle CORE Version 4.0.6.0.0 - Production
Oracle Tools Integration Services 6.0.8.18.0
Oracle Tools Common Area 6.0.8.18.0
Oracle Toolkit 2 for Windows 32-bit platforms 6.0.8.24.0
Resource Object Store 6.0.8.21.0
Oracle Help 6.0.8.24.0
Oracle Sqlmgr 6.0.8.18.0
Oracle Query Builder 6.0.7.1.0 - Production
PL/SQL Editor (c) WinMain Software (www.winmain.com), v1.0 (Production)
Oracle ZRC 6.0.8.22.0
Oracle Express 6.0.8.3.5
Oracle XML Parser 1.0.2.1.0 Production
Oracle Virtual Graphics System 6.0.5.38.0
Oracle Image 6.0.8.20.0
Oracle Multimedia Widget 6.0.8.20.0
Oracle Tools GUI Utilities 6.0.8.20.1
As you can see, all versions are exactly the same in both machines.
3) A windows 98 machine with a epson fx-880+ printer atached on it. It will be referenced as W98.
When running the report from the WXP machine, directing the output to the W98 Epson FX-880+ it works fine: all escape sequences takes effect, the speed is good and the aligment is ok. But when running the same .rep report from the W2000 machine, directing the output to the same W98 printer, the escape sequences doesn't work and, worst, are printed. As a consequence of this, the aligment is wrong.
All of this was done to try to fix this problem:
1) The latest patch available for reports 6i is patch 15 which you can download from metalink -> patches -> Simple search -> patch number = 3171855. You can apply the latest patch and test (Raghavendra from metalink)
2) Apply the spool raw datatype workaround in Windows 2000, following these steps:
* Click Start , point to Settings , and then click Printers.
* Right-click the printer that you want to use and click Properties.
* On the Advanced tab, click Print Processor.
* Click Raw in the Default data type box.
* Click OK to confirm changes.
* On the Advanced tab, clear the Enable advanced printing features option.
* Click OK to confirm changes.
(From metalink Note:178433.1)
3) Edit the wide.prt file using dos edit instead of notepad, and using CTRL+P + ALT18 to obtain the ESC(18) character (just the same thing that was done in WXP machine) (From OTN Forum)
Does anyone wave any other idea?
Thanks,
Vinicius Pacheco

I'm replying my own question to inform what happens if anyone is facing same situation.
Initially thanks to Bob for your sugestion. It works! But not at first time.
I don't have administrator permission at the remote machine (W2000) to change the printer settings. So I made a request to the people who has. They made the changes, but the report still not working. After some tries we saw the reason: all the changes was for their user only. In my user this changes weren't active. So there are some things to check in this situation:
1) If you are not administrator, check if the changes made by another people are in effect in your account;
2) In some way your local printer definitons affects the remote printer (don't ask me why!!!), so check you local printer definition too.
I hope it helps!

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