Sending Control Sequences to a Printer

Keywords: 	  control sequences

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Question:

i would like to send a escape sequence to a laser printer via Winbatch. I know the escape sequences but i can't get it to the printer.

What i would like to to is, i want to send the escape sequence for changing the fond and the Paper orientation.

Any suggestion?

Answer:

You can often FileCopy escapt sequences to a printer.

If it is a network printer use

\\Servername\printername as the FileCopytarget.

Let's say you want you want to send ESC F CRLF to the printer LPT1

Maybe try:

	bb=BinaryAlloc(100)
	BinaryPokeStr(bb,0,Num2Char(27)) ; ESC
	BinaryPokeStr(bb,1,"F")
	BinaryPokeStr(bb,2,@CRLF)
	BinaryWrite(bb,"LPT1")

or maybe:

	BinaryWrite(bb,"\\server\printer")

then

	BinaryFree(bb)

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Article ID:   W13705

Filename:   Sending Control Sequences to a Printer.txt