> 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 the reliability of using the MS Windows "DOS" in > a production environment. We used DOS in production environments for 10 years before Windows took over, its not a problem for this kind of thing! Caveat: I've only tried his from Windows 98 but I don't know of any reason it shouldn't work from an XP CMD prompt. If echo "hello world" > PRN: works then it should work from Python too. HTH, Alan G.
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