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Re: printer question follow up

• Posted by eugtk at yahoo.com Aug 11, 2003
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--- George Walters <gwalters at sc.rr.com> wrote:

> Irv, I did what you suggested and it was really
> puzzling. It printed things
> fine to the printer but the first 2-3 lines of the
> printout that should have
> been at the top of the page were at the bottom of
> the page. I had no idea
> what caused this....after opening lpt am I supposed
> to do something else to
> position the output to the top?

By printing directly to the printer you now have to
deal 
with the peculiarities of each printer brand. Remember

the "escape codes" which were often different for
different 
brands and even different models of the same brand?

You'll probably have to dig up some manuals, and find 
a reset or clear-the-buffer or top-of-page code to
send 
to the  printer. Perhaps also some codes to set the
margins, fonts (if available), etc. etc.

Then when your client changes printers, do it all over

again. Printing is one area where Windows is actually 
a big improvement over what we had before.  

Regards,
Irv