I discovered a small tip that made a big difference for one of my clients.
They were using a VB app they bought from some vendor and CR was used for
the reporting.  They had an Epson dot matrix printer for output.  Naturally
it worked fine with the previous program they were using, but didn't work
well with the new one <sigh>.  As it turns out, I had to d/l older printer
drivers from the web to solve this problem.  Choosing mono spaced, non-true
type fonts helped speed up the printing quite a bit.  I guess, if you
choose fonts that have a printer icon next to them, it makes the printing
go much faster.  This was on a Pentium system running Windows 3.x.

Hi,

What happens here is the printer is using the printer resident fonts not the
True Type fonts.  The difference is who Windows uses the fonts.  The True Type
fonts are graphics fonts and Windows treats them as pictures so it has to draw
each character.  The Printer Resident fonts are not handled as pictures and the
printer handles it.

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