Printing text files in compressed print

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Eloy Arellano

I have an application that produces a text report. This
report contains special characters at the beginning to set
the printer to compressed printing. This works fine when
the report is sent to a file and then the file is printed
via the print command in DOS. It does not work when the
output is sent directly to the printer.

What do I need to do to get the compressed print command
to the printer?
 
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 11:39:34 -0800, Eloy Arellano wrote:

=>I have an application that produces a text report. This
=>report contains special characters at the beginning to set
=>the printer to compressed printing. This works fine when
=>the report is sent to a file and then the file is printed
=>via the print command in DOS. It does not work when the
=>output is sent directly to the printer.
=>
=>What do I need to do to get the compressed print command
=>to the printer?

Since it works with the DOS command, but not via Windows,
the problem appears to be that Windows strips out the
necessary codes. IMO it looks like you're stuck with the
work around.

Since the printing works fine via the work around, I
suspect you have a DOS application. If so, it may be
possible that if you run the application itself directly
from the command line, the printing will work as desired.
Worth a try, maybe. You can either open the command line,
and run from there, and if it works, write small script
that will do all that for you.

HTH&GL
 
I'm going to recommend DOSprn, a very inexpensive utility that may solve
your problem. As far as I know (The more you know, the more you don't
know.), there is no real fix for Win2K-SP3/4 and DOS print issues.

http://www.dosprn.com
 
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 04:28:35 GMT, Brian Smither wrote:

=>I'm going to recommend DOSprn, a very inexpensive utility that may solve
=>your problem. As far as I know (The more you know, the more you don't
=>know.), there is no real fix for Win2K-SP3/4 and DOS print issues.
=>
=>http://www.dosprn.com

Thanks for the tip (I'm not OP, but can use this.)
 
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