Re: printing question
Michael Packard wrote:
> This works great on my cannon bubblejet, but NOT on my bosses HP laserjet.
> "I print all the time, just now in windows! You must be an idiot!"
>
> how do I get it to work on that printer? It's standard ascii text,
> nothing fancy, but I need to be able to print on any printer, without
> having to have the people using the program tell it what kind of printer
> they have.=20
>
> They tried printing the report in dos Edit and it didn't do it either. (as
> I'm directing them over the phone, again see quote above...)
>
Michael:
It's been a long time, but I vaguely remember having to send a "reset" sequence
to some models of Laserjets before they will print plain ascii. They can be put
into all sorts of weird modes by windoze and various applications. Check the
manual that came with the printer for these codes.
Ask your client to type 'dir' at the c:> prompt, then hit screen print - see if
that
prints ok. If not, the problem is deeper than Euphoria.
As far as being able to print without specifying the printer, good luck. There
are just too many non-standard "standards". The real problem is that even
if you supply proper software for every printer, your users will often be
unable to determine which printer they have - so, back to square one!
Irv
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