Line Printers: Creating Documents

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Hi everyone,

I used to make documents to be printed by laser printers. Now I need to make a file which must be supported by line printers, the questions are:

1. How or where to start?

2. Are there any C# libraries for this?

thanks in advance.

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How or Where to start proggramming to create documents which can be printed by Line Printers

Posted 19-Jan-11 23:06pm

Jamal Seyedi

Updated 20-Jan-11 0:20am

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E.F. Nijboer · Answer 1 · 2011-01-20T03:08:00

Solution 1

Try this article with sourcecode that can help you on your way:
Line Printer Class in C#[^]

And you could have a look at this:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322091[^]

Good luck!

Posted 20-Jan-11 3:08am

E.F. Nijboer

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Jamal Seyedi 22-Jan-11 1:30am

Thanks for answering me.But I mean creating just the document file which can be downloded and printed.I dont want application to directly connect to the printer and send data.
I need a library which has all needed control chars or to help set report property, body property etc.

E.F. Nijboer 22-Jan-11 11:24am

You can simply print it as html for example because that doesn't matter to you anymore. It is up to the program (for html this would be the browser) to make sure it goes correct to the printer and for the printer driver to get it right on paper. As long as you keep it kind of "plain" this will go just fine. But printing for your application is in this case simply out of scope.

Yusuf · Answer 2 · 2011-01-20T03:25:00

Solution 2

In addition to E.F. Nijboers asnwer, see also

Line Printer Daemon in C#[^]

http://dotnetforum.lk/forums/p/4115/16251.aspx[^]

http://www.dotnetmonster.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/dotnet-csharp/92603/Line-Printer-Printronix-Epson-in-C[^]

Posted 20-Jan-11 3:25am

Yusuf