W. eWatson wrote:
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2010-01-15, W. eWatson <wolftra...@invalid.com> wrote:
I thought I'd put a page break, chr(12), character in a txt
file I wrote to skip to the top of the page. It doesn't work.
Comments?
Yes, it does work.
Apparently not with with my Brother 1440 laser printer. The character in
NotePad.txt looks like a small rectangle, and on the printed page. Same
result HP C6180 Photosmart.
But are you sending the raw control codes to the printer, or are
you sending the image-of-my-text-document to a printer-GDI which
then renders the as-you-see-it out of the printer?
The pseudo-pipeline comparison would be
type file.txt > lpt1:
which would send the raw text file to the printer (assuming it's
set up on LPT1, otherwise, use whatever port it's attached to in
your printer control panel); or are you using something like
notepad file.txt
File -> Print
which renders to an internal image representation and then sends
that image out to the printer. If it were a dot-matrix printer,
you'd here/see the difference in a jiffy -- the raw dump is fast
and uses the printer's built-in fonts while the render-as-image
is slow and NOISY.
One alternative is possibly to set up the "Generic Text" printer
as a device type and attach it to the same port; I've had fair
fortune with this letting me control the printer more directly if
I want fast dumps (particularly on dot-matrix printers) rather
than pretty dumps.
-tkc
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