MSDos printing under WIn2k

[Scott Turchin]

I forgot who it was I was discussing getting a printer driver to print in MSDOs mode but I found something that may assist you!


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows

Take that registry, look for string value:
DosPrint


Change the value to lower case 'yes' without the tick marks and try again!

I don't know if it's the solution, appears to be the default printer driver only but I'm researching some printing stuff for another question I will be pos ting..

Scott

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Scott

[Lance Edmonds]

It wont do you much good unless the printer (and maybe the driver) actually supports DOS printing.

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Lance
PowerBASIC Support
mailto:[email protected][email protected]</A>

[Scott Turchin]

Isn't a printer datastream a printer datastreaM?
If the driver won't support it agreed, you'd have to do generic/text only or something....

Win2k has me stumped on this one, saw the prompt on my home printer but not at work....



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Scott

[Lance Edmonds]

Winprinters (also known as Windows-only or GDI printers) almost always use a proprietary "data stream"... usually the data sent to the printer resembles something like a bitmapped image stream.

So, while any application can sent data to a printer, the data has to be in a format that the printer understands. If you send plain text to most winprinters, you'll get nothing or gibberish on paper at best.

Therefore, technically speaking, a printer data stream is a printer data stream, but thats about as far as it goes.

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Lance
PowerBASIC Support
mailto:[email protected][email protected]</A>

[Scott Turchin]

Hmm good point!
No wonder a certain company I know (and used to work for) could never do it right.

Heck, Ddoc does it better than that company did! (I print my winlog like a bitmap on the paper, it draws)...


Scott

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Scott

[Lance Edmonds]

Sure.... as do my DOSPRINT and DLLPRINT libraries!
(JFYI: V2.0 includes full image printing support for BMP, JPG, TIFF, PNG, etc)

Regards,
Lance
mailto:[email protected][email protected]</A> www.dllprint.com