I need help with printer programming

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Hi friends I want to print file contents using C++ program. Please tell me how I can do this. I don't know anything about printer programming. Please help me to sort out this problem. I want it to perform on C++. If you can provide me code to implement it, then it will be more helpful to me.

Posted 2-Jun-10 20:18pm

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Updated 2-Jun-10 22:38pm

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Niklas L 3-Jun-10 3:09am

Could you give us a hint what you want to print? Is it text only, or do you need vector graphics? Bitmaps? Embedded documents?

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Christian Graus · Answer 1 · 2010-06-02T20:27:00

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There's no direct support for printing in C, or C++. In C++ you can use classes in MFC. In C, I'm not sure what you'd use. You need to be clear, is it C, or C++ ?

Posted 2-Jun-10 20:27pm

Christian Graus

Cedric Moonen · Answer 2 · 2010-06-02T22:42:00

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Well, you are not clear at all as which technology you are using. Are you using MFC, win32, ... ?
Anyway, take a look at this section[^] on CP. You most probably will find something useful.

Posted 2-Jun-10 22:42pm

Cedric Moonen

«_Superman_» · Answer 3 · 2010-06-03T00:50:00

Basically, printing means drawing to the printer's device context.
It is exactly the same as drawing to the screen.
Most of the time the code to draw to the screen is exactly the same as that used for printing.
Only the device context changes from that of the screen to the printer.
All GDI functions like TextOut, LineTo, Rectangle, Ellipse etc. can be used for printing.

Niklas L · Answer 4 · 2010-06-03T03:26:00

Some printers have a built-in ftp server, to which you can upload files to be printed, and some are very sofisticated when it comes to understanding and interpret different file formats. However, doing this circumvents any spooler queues i believe. (which can be very useful at the office when you want to print on a choked printer)

Richard MacCutchan · Answer 5 · 2010-06-03T06:02:00

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If you are using straight C++ without MFC then take a look at this page[^] on MSDN. If you are using MFC then take a look at CPrintDialog()[^].

Posted 3-Jun-10 6:02am

Richard MacCutchan

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