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Robert Thornbur
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 Printing single lines Does anyone know a way to make VB 6.0 L.E. print a line or 2 without doing a
page feed? I have tried using a HP inkjet and also a tractor feed dot
matrix. I had hoped to print values from my data acquisition/process
control program - I need to see some of the output and can't wait for the
Windows print spooler to fill a page before ejecting, nor do I want to print
one line per page. I tried Printer.EndDoc but it apparently does a form
feed.
Any hope? I guess I could print the data to a file and read it from
Notepad, but there is risk there if I forget to close the file while the
process is open.
Thanks,
Bob
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| Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:07:26 GMT |
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Hun & Hunet
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Printing single lines On Fri, 25 May 2001 03:07:26 GMT, "Robert Thornburg"
Finish the line with a ';' (semicolon)
ie:
printer.Print "Hello";
I think that'll work.
Quote: >Does anyone know a way to make VB 6.0 L.E. print a line or 2 without doing a >page feed? I have tried using a HP inkjet and also a tractor feed dot >matrix. I had hoped to print values from my data acquisition/process >control program - I need to see some of the output and can't wait for the >Windows print spooler to fill a page before ejecting, nor do I want to print >one line per page. I tried Printer.EndDoc but it apparently does a form >feed. >Any hope? I guess I could print the data to a file and read it from
>Notepad, but there is risk there if I forget to close the file while the
>process is open.
>Thanks,
>Bob
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| Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:02:09 GMT |
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Hun & Hunet
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Printing single lines On Fri, 25 May 2001 03:07:26 GMT, "Robert Thornburg"
Whhoops, you asked about 'page feed' not line feed.
How do you print to it now ?
Printer.Print line 1
etcc..
Printer.EndDoc ?
I believe, without sending an EndDoc it should not spool the print
process.
hth
Quote: >Does anyone know a way to make VB 6.0 L.E. print a line or 2 without doing a >page feed? I have tried using a HP inkjet and also a tractor feed dot >matrix. I had hoped to print values from my data acquisition/process >control program - I need to see some of the output and can't wait for the >Windows print spooler to fill a page before ejecting, nor do I want to print >one line per page. I tried Printer.EndDoc but it apparently does a form >feed. >Any hope? I guess I could print the data to a file and read it from
>Notepad, but there is risk there if I forget to close the file while the
>process is open.
>Thanks,
>Bob
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| Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:07:06 GMT |
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dsavits
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Printing single lines how about printing to the debug window?
-d
Quote: > Does anyone know a way to make VB 6.0 L.E. print a line or 2 without doing a > page feed? I have tried using a HP inkjet and also a tractor feed dot > matrix. I had hoped to print values from my data acquisition/process > control program - I need to see some of the output and can't wait for the > Windows print spooler to fill a page before ejecting, nor do I want to print > one line per page. I tried Printer.EndDoc but it apparently does a form > feed. > Any hope? I guess I could print the data to a file and read it from
> Notepad, but there is risk there if I forget to close the file while the
> process is open.
> Thanks,
> Bob
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| Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:14:54 GMT |
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xprt
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Printing single lines You can always change Printer.Width, Printer.Height properties.
So you could change the paper size to 1-2 lines.
But you must send Printer.EndDoc to start printing...
Quote: > Does anyone know a way to make VB 6.0 L.E. print a line or 2 without doing
a
> page feed?
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| Tue, 11 Nov 2003 14:01:48 GMT |
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Michael William
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Printing single lines If you are using a locally attached "old fashioned" dot matrix printer using
Win95/98 then the following should work for you:
Dim fn As Long
fn = FreeFile
Open Printer.Port For Output As fn
Print #fn, "A single line of text"
Close fn
Dim fn As Long
fn = FreeFile
Open Printer.Port For Output As fn
Print #fn, "Another line of text"
Close fn
Mike
Quote: > Does anyone know a way to make VB 6.0 L.E. print a line or 2 without doing a > page feed? I have tried using a HP inkjet and also a tractor feed dot > matrix. I had hoped to print values from my data acquisition/process > control program - I need to see some of the output and can't wait for the > Windows print spooler to fill a page before ejecting, nor do I want to print > one line per page. I tried Printer.EndDoc but it apparently does a form > feed. > Any hope? I guess I could print the data to a file and read it from
> Notepad, but there is risk there if I forget to close the file while the
> process is open.
> Thanks,
> Bob
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