[Tutor] Python printing to LPT

[Bill Allen]

Allan,

Ok, that encourages me to try it both ways and see which works out better.


Thanks,

--Bill









On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 15:34, ALAN GAULD <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:

> > to print some plain text to a dot matrix printer that the printer can
> handle
> > with its own internal fonts without need for any kind of other
> processing.
>
> In that case you can either open LPT1 as a file and write to it or use
> redirection to PRN from the command line.
>
>
> > I am dubious about the reliability of using the MS Windows "DOS" in
> > a production environment.
>
> We used DOS in production environments for 10 years before Windows
> took over, its not a problem for this kind of thing!
>
> Caveat: I've only tried his from Windows 98 but I don't know of any reason
> it shouldn't work from an XP CMD prompt. If
>
> echo "hello world" > PRN:
>
> works then it should work from Python too.
>
> HTH,
>
> Alan G.
>
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