On 02/12/2011 09:53 PM, Bill Allen wrote:
Ken,
Thanks for the great info on doing this on a Linux platform. I am
sure I will be trying this with Linux sometime and I'll refer back to
this.
--Bill
I discovered some more information on this at the following link:
http://mail.python.org/
As a followup, I have done some more searching and found some terrific
information on this subject of Python printing on the Windows platform.
The following link shows variations using some modules from the pywin32
package.
http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/print.html
--Bill
On
Ken,
Thanks for the great info on doing this on a Linux platform. I am sure I
will be trying this with Linux sometime and I'll refer back to this.
--Bill
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 18:33, Ken G. wrote:
> On 02/12/2011 10:14 AM, Bill Allen wrote:
>
>>
>> Is is possible to print directly
On 02/12/2011 10:14 AM, Bill Allen wrote:
Is is possible to print directly to an LPT port printer from Python?
--Bill
I use the following format in my Ubuntu 10.04 usage. It set up a
printing file.
import os
# declare values
month = "02"; date = "11"; year = "2011"
# open up fi
Allan,
Ok, that encourages me to try it both ways and see which works out better.
Thanks,
--Bill
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 15:34, ALAN GAULD wrote:
> > to print some plain text to a dot matrix printer that the printer can
> handle
> > with its own internal fonts without need for any ki
> to print some plain text to a dot matrix printer that the printer can handle
> with its own internal fonts without need for any kind of other processing.
In that case you can either open LPT1 as a file and write to it or use
redirection to PRN from the command line.
> I am dubious about t
Alan,
Sorry for being vague. I am wanting to print from a Python app that I am
writing for MS Windows XP.The desired end result is to print some plain
text to a dot matrix printer that the printer can handle with its own
internal fonts without need for any kind of other processing.What I
"Bill Allen" wrote
Is is possible to print directly to an LPT port printer from Python?
Yes.
and No.
It depends on how you define "directly" and what you are trying
to print and from which OS.
Alan G
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