Microsoft Generic Text-Only printer driver compatibility

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darkhovsky

I have the Dell Photo All-in-One Printer 922. It comes with the driver,
which if being installed works fine.
The printer is connected via USB port.
For some reasons I try to print a text to the printer using
Microsoft Generic Text-Only driver from the Notepad application.
The text is sent to the printer, no error messages appear, but
nothing is printed.
I suspect that the printer ignores the data sent in the format,
prepared by Text Only driver.
I wonder how many printer models out there, which do not support
the output of the Text/only printer driver?
 
I wonder how many printer models out there, which do not support
the output of the Text/only printer driver?
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All the GDI printers, AKA Windows-only. More and more printers nowadays are
Windows-only.

Anyway, Notepad is a Windows application, so you can print to your printer
by using its own printer driver instead of the "Generic Text/Only"

Kind regards,
Davide Guolo
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I have the Dell Photo All-in-One Printer 922. It comes with the driver,
which if being installed works fine.
The printer is connected via USB port.
For some reasons I try to print a text to the printer using
Microsoft Generic Text-Only driver from the Notepad application.
The text is sent to the printer, no error messages appear, but
nothing is printed.
I suspect that the printer ignores the data sent in the format,
prepared by Text Only driver.
I wonder how many printer models out there, which do not support
the output of the Text/only printer driver?
Click to expand...

Use the printer's regular driver to print from Notepad.

Set the destination for the Generic-Text Only driver to a file.

The Generic Text-Only driver is intended for use converting formated
documents to plain text, usually with a file as the destination. A
dialog will open to allow you to specify the file name. You THEN load
the text file into Notepad and use the printer's regular driver to
produce the hard copy. The output should appear in the monospace Courier
font.
 
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