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Can somebody help? I need to set up a custom paper size
under win XP for fanfold invoice paper.
I expect this'll help. With older Windows versions, custom
paper sizes were set at the printer level. In XP (and
Win2K), custom paper sizes are created at the printer
server level, and are inherited as options by all of your
printers that can support them.
More explicitly (these instructions are for Win2K, but XP
is very similar), to create a custom paper size, follow
this menu path: Start | Settings | Printers | File | Server
Properties. Check the "Create a New Form" option, give it a
different name than the one offered in the "Form
Description for:" box. Set up the sizes you want in the
boxes provided, click "Save Form" and you're done creating
the custom form.
Next, right-click on the icon for the printer you want to
print the custom form on, and select Properties. In the
"General" tab, click "Printing Preferences", then
"Advanced", and click on the drop-down menu for "Paper
Size". Select the new custom size you defined, and click
OK. Click OK again at the "Printing Preferences" dialog
box, which will get you back to the multi-tabbed printer
Properties box. Click on the "Device Settings" tab, and
again select your custom form from the dropdown menu.
If your custom paper size does not appear as one of the
options, then Windows does not believe that printer is
capable of handling custom forms.
And that's all there is to it! (sarcasm intended)
However, you can avoid messing around with all these
settings every time you want to print a special form: For
each custom form, install a new "printer" that is an extra
copy of your multi-size-form-capable printer, set the
properties as above to suit your custom form, name the
printer something like "Epson Check-Writing (don't forget
to load checks into it before using!) Printer", and direct
your print output to that printer whenever that custom form
is being printed.
