DevOps, CI/CD and Automation

Announcement

For appeals, questions and feedback about Oracle Forums, please email oracle-forums-moderators_us@oracle.com. Technical questions should be asked in the appropriate category. Thank you!

Report printed on new printer contains rubbish characters!

483839Jun 25 2008 — edited Jun 27 2008

Hi all,

We have an Oracle 6i report that is printing rubbish characters when output to a new Epson DFX-9000 printer. The old printer was an OKI Microline 395.

I'm not that familiar with reports but I have had a look at the following parameters as I believe they may have something to do with this:

DESTYPE: Set in form via SET_REPORT_OBJECT_PROPERTY. This is set to PRINTER.
DESNAME: Set in form via SET_REPORT_OBJECT_PROPERTY. Set to the printer the user chooses.
DESTYPE: Set in report via System Parameters. Set to dflt

No matter what I set the DESTYPE to I still get rubbish characters being printed.

We have other reports that work fine i.e. the DESTYPE is either okiprt or okiwide and they print OK to the new Epson printer.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Cheers
Ian.