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The Day Walker!

01-06-2006 05:12

printing in windows with dos speed???

pals...

i m developing an acc soft, 4 my office,,, in vb + accesss and needed 2 know

if there is a way i can print with the dos speed by vb coding....

want 2 use dot matrix printer 4 printing,,,,, and as every1 knows, dos prints

very fast on dotmatrix compared 2 windows,, so is there a way, i can print

with the same speed staying in windows,,, using vb...

help needed

thanx

TDW {RES}

Maximus

01-06-2006 09:09

mmh...
Are you handling printer using WinApi? If not, start using them. Also, set its datatype to RAW. And use api like WritePrinter to do the job.
Also, remember you need to find the right escape sequences for your printers. More, if I remember well, the OS will send anyway a bunch of escape commands to the printer, and you cannot avoid it.

Unforgiv3N

01-06-2006 10:06

many of matrix printers are very slove in winxp, because they use the color driver or high resolution printing you can decrease them manually or monitor them and apply them on a other PC, you can also use CVS Output but you will lose the drawing tables also you can use Seagate's Crystal Report

The Day Walker!

01-06-2006 12:16

@maximus,,,

pal,,, will that help me in speed printing... or will it take the same windows printing time

cause i dont need any hifi printing, just normal text and straight lines.... 2 generate

bills,,thats it..... sop it should b fast.... and will crystal report print b fast..or slow??

thanx

TDw {RES}

appsuse

01-06-2006 14:09

Dos Print

There are many ways to print Dos Speed In windows
1. Use Print function with Draft font to print.
2. Design Reports in Draft font
3. send print to lpt direct. and many more

infern0

01-06-2006 17:35

also try to print into generic / text only printer

Maximus

01-06-2006 21:58

do you understand Delphi Code? If so, google for ZReport (or ZaReport, forgot which one).

mpardinho

01-14-2006 20:27

try this code

if you need use chr(27).....CHR(18)

Code:

Public Sub Prinbt_File(Txt$, PrnName$)

   Dim DI As DOC_INFO_1, buffer() As Byte, Written&, hPrn&

   Dim FinalText$, Addline$, Resp&

   Dim Pd As PRINTER_DEFAULTS

      

   DI.pDocName = "Relat�rio"

   DI.pOutputFile = vbNullString

   DI.pDatatype = "RAW"

   

   With Pd

      .pDatatype = 0&

      .pDevMode = 0&

      .DesiredAccess = PRINTER_ALL_ACCESS

   End With

   

   ' open

   Resp = OpenPrinter(PrnName, hPrn, Pd)

   Resp = StartDocPrinter(hPrn, 1, DI)

   Resp = StartPagePrinter(hPrn)

   

   ' print

   Open Txt For Input As #1

      Do While Not EOF(1)

         Line Input #1, Addline

         buffer = FinalText + vbCrLf

         Call WritePrinter(hPrn, buffer(1), UBound(buffer), Written)

     Loop

   Close #1

   

   ' Finish

   EndPagePrinter (hPrn)

   EndDocPrinter (hPrn)

   ClosePrinter (hPrn)

End Sub

appsuse

01-15-2006 19:47

hxxp://planet-source-code.com
site has many and more samples on dos printing using visual basic, access and crsytal report.

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