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 <alan.ga...@btinternet.com> 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 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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