Re: Driver for b/w dot matrix printers (ESC/P)

It depends on what you need: support for a lot of printers, or standard
windows dialogs. There are *very* few printers supported from MS with CE
(and, as Steve said, the device has to include the printing support). If
your printer happens to be one of them, OK, you're set. Since you're
asking, it must not be, so you either have to find or write a printer driver
for the printer you *do* have or use something that will work. The goal is
to complete the application, so I'd use Field, if they have support for what
you need.

Paul T.

"Michael Reim" <nospam.reim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message news:uahArHUXFHA.1468@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Ok Dean
>
> then I think I used the wrong words.
>
> Second try:
> We are using the well known MFC printing mechanism.
> MFC calls the printer setup dialog which lets the user select the correct
> printer (driver).
> We get a PrinterDC from the MFC and do all the work necessary for
> printing.
>
> This is all implemented the standard way in our application.
>
> So if we install a new printer driver, we don't have to modify our
> application.
>
> But I don't think that the Fieldsoftware product functions this way.
> Fieldsoftware want's us to link there special library for printing.
> This includes that we have to modify every application which should print
> with this driver.
> But definitely, we don't want to modify e.g. Internet Explorer, in order
> to
> print through
> the Fieldsoftware driver.
>
> Maybe someone who uses Fieldsoftware can confirm that I am right?
>
> --
> Michael Reim
> reim AT helmut-fischer DOT de
>
>
> "Dean Ramsier" <ramsiernospam@xxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:exT#F1TXFHA.2076@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Windows CE doesn't have the concept of a printer driver like you've
> referred
>> to. In CE, the GDI renders data to the printer driver, and it's up to
> your
>> application to draw into the printer device context provided by the GDI
> for
>> printing. Each of your applications has to provide this functionality.
> So
>> whether you code this yourself in your app, or use a third party product
>> that does some of the work for you is up to you...
>> --
>> Dean Ramsier - eMVP
>> Vibren Technologies
>> http://www.vibren.com/Products/schema_bsp.htm
>>
>>
>> "Michael Reim" <nospam.reim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote in message news:Odhg37RXFHA.712@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Thank you Paul
>> >
>> > I already found this product, but I think they don't use the standard
>> > Windows way of printing.
>> > So this form of printing would only be possible through library calls
> from
>> > our application.
>> > We need the standard way (printer driver), which would enable every
>> > application
>> > on our device to print on the dot matrix printer.
>> >
>> > So in short, we need a printer driver for Windows CE.
>> > We don't need an application which prints all standard documents.
>> > And we don't wan't a special library for our application in order to
> print
>> > our documents.
>> >
>> > So the question is still, is there anybody who has a standard printer
>> driver
>> > for ESC/P b/w printers?
>> >
>> > --
>> > Michael Reim
>> > reim AT helmut-fischer DOT de
>> >
>> >
>> > "Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" <ptobey no spam AT no instrument no spam DOT
>> > com>
>> > schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:O5cN0mIXFHA.2288@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > > Have you looked at Field Software's product for printing from CE? I
>> don't
>> > > know if it will support your printer, but it's the de facto standard
> for
>> > > printer support. Here's the list of supported devices:
>> > >
>> > > http://www.fieldsoftware.com/PrintersSupported.htm
>> > >
>> > > Paul T.
>> > >
>> > > "Michael Reim"
> <nospam.reim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > > wrote in message news:uOWjj6DXFHA.2128@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > > > Hello
>> > > >
>> > > > Is there anybody willing to share his source code for a ESC/P
> Printer
>> > > > driver?
>> > > > We need this driver for our system with CE 4.2 and in future for CE
>> 5.0.
>> > > >
>> > > > TIA
>> > > > --
>> > > > Michael Reim
>> > > > reim AT helmut-fischer DOT de
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>


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