I notice a lot of folks on this forum use Devexpress Xtrareports as their report writer. Having looked at a few report writers, I am now seriously considering XtraReports. One issue that would cause concern me is the apparent lack of support for Dot Matrix Printers. A lot of our users still use Dot Matrix printers and will not be convinced to change. I have seen a few threads on the Devexprress fora ehich suggest that Dot Matrix Printers are not supported. Wondering here if anybody knoes if that is the case, and if so, are there any workarounds .?

Hi Gerard,



A pretty good test would be to print various document types using the drivers you have to see how they perform, e.g. a text file, a spreadsheet, a Word document. If these print ok you are likely to be ok no matter what reporting tool you use.



Cheers, Peter

I dont have a problem printing to a dot matrix printer from other apps (e.g. Word, Excel, VFP etc). I had seen a dew threads on Devexpress where users could print ok from other apps but things like form feeding, paging etc were causing a problem just on XtraREports. These threads were going back a year or so. Anyway, I have left a message on their form and will update you on replies.

I have not downloaded a trial yet as I wanted to ensure there would be no show stoppers before investigating