Good progress made today. The LP2824 printer arrived, and after some initial teething issues we were able to print straight off from our Excel system on to the fanfold strips.
Control Eng, the issue with indexing the strip in to the printer is as you expected. The black mark on the strip is on the wrong side of the strip for the sensor on the printer, and therefore the printer does not know where to start printing, this means that sometimes the prints are a few mm out, and if not corrected eventually overlapping would occur. We have tried drawing marks on the correct side of the strip to try things out - but this does not seem to work when calibration is set up.
However, I think having had a play that the indexing/ calibration is not something to worry about. We could just get a roll of continuous 25mm wide thermal paper produced (we have a company that have said that they can do this for us relatively cheaply), with no perforations. As the print driver defines the length of the paper to print each strip on we can just rip each strip off using the serrated edge of the printer, and the indexing is therefore not an issue, (it would have been even better if we had purchased the printer with the cutter, and then it would have sliced each strip off after printing).
Given we only got this running a few hours ago, I'm pretty happy with where we're at now and will look to progress further over the next few days.
