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printing to a dot matrix printer

Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 10:09 am
by bwolfsohn
I'm looking into printing form forms to a dot matrix printer (oki 320/420), and i remember some routines that printed directly to the printer, bypassing the windows printer driver, but i haven't been able to locate those in my history/code.

I need to be able to print to a 3.5 inch form, but that paper size isn't available as a form size in the windows printer driver.

any suggestions from out of the memory banks ??

Re: printing to a dot matrix printer

Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 4:23 pm
by bwolfsohn
Found a driver from okidata that let's us add custom form sizes.

Re: printing to a dot matrix printer

Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 1:48 pm
by DDunlap
Look at DCPRINT SIZE..... this will set the size based on number of lines and length. Consider dcprint font in the process. I use this on 1" x 3" labels......The label size is set in the printer driver.
I have a preprinted form 8" x 7" & 8" x 11" in my program.
The form size is set in the printer driver.