Re: Controling printers at a detailed level

Thanks to Alexander and Chris. The information you provided was exactly
what I needed.

Cheers!

Dennis

"Dennis" <junk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:#kU6m6YkFHA.1048@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> This may be the wrong forum for this question. If there is a better,
please
> advise me.
>
> Years ago, in the pre-Windows days, I wrote code to directly control
> printers using ESC sequences (I believe that's what they were called). I
> could get them to TAB, LF and CR and I could adjust various things like
> fonts and font size. All these printer control codes were generally
vendor
> specific.
>
> Now, I'd like to do something similar within a Win32 Windows program.
I'd
> like to grab control of a laser printer and control page size and line
> height and tab spacing and a raft of things. I want to print labels and
> signs of various sizes and I want a lot of control of the text and imagery
> on them. And I'm a bit puzzled how to start.
>
> Let me say that I've been a Windows C++ Win32 programmer for many years
but
> I've never had to wander into the world of printers before.
>
> I suspect that the modern interface to printers has been abstracted so
that
> all the vendor specific stuff has gone away. If that's true, then
somewhere
> out there are a group of APIs that will allow me to do what I want. I've
> scanned the MSDN library to see what I could find but thus far I've come
up
> with a blank. Can someone give me a gentle push in the right direction?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Dennis
>
>


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