RE: Help printer driver

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From: Bobby Mattappally [MS] (bobbym_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:00:25 GMT

Hi Jack,
The TextOnly driver doesn't print graphics, so you need to use a non-TTY
driver.
See the DDK docs on "Hardware-Resident Fonts" for info on creating device
fonts.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/graphics/hh
/graphics/nt5gpd_fc3ca20b-2be4-4112-b735-0d73f2557402.xml.asp

Also see how TTY driver implements hardware fonts.
  
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Hi all,

I need to write a driver for our printer. This printer is able to print
text and graphic. I was having a look to oemuni and generic text only
driver sample in the ddk but I was not able to understand which one were
the best for my aim.
Since I am interested to print text either with truetype font or with
hardware font (the driver should send to the printer the "graphic" if
the text is made using truetype font or the "text" if the text is made
using the font of the printer), could someone tell me where I can start
from?

Thanks in advance.

Jack
MicroPOS srl

Hope this helps.

Thank you,
Bobby Mattappally
Microsoft

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