Issue
When an alarm is sent to a printer Alarm Receiver, the printer prints several pages for one alarm.
Environment
- Vista
- Printer
Cause
A normal, modern laser printer does not have coding that allows it to take a break in the middle of a page and start again later. When a print job starts it will consume the whole piece of paper. An alarm in Vista will print one page for just that one alarm. Depending on the alarm it could span multiple pages.
Resolution
Only a dot matrix printer can be used because they can print on impact. Correctly programmed you will get one alarm on each row.
The programming needs to be done with the printer manual.