Default Printer.

[Josh Madarasz]

Was hopeing someone could point out a good primer on printing. Am trying to
change the default printer, have the device names in a list box, but can't
for the life of me figure out how to select one from the list box and set
Printer = . Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you,
Josh Madarasz

[Raoul Watson]

Re: Default Printer.


"Josh Madarasz" <jmadsoftware@a lltel.net> wrote in message
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> Was hopeing someone could point out a good primer on printing. Am trying[/color]
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> change the default printer, have the device names in a list box, but can't
> for the life of me figure out how to select one from the list box and set
> Printer = . Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
> Josh Madarasz[/color]

AFAIK there is no way to do it using the VB printer object.
If you want to use API, check out OpenPrinter function.

Then use StartDocPrinter , StartPagePrinte r, WritePrinter, EndPagePrinter,
EndDocPrinter, and finally ClosePrinter.

[Randy Birch]

Re: Default Printer.

Depending on your Windows version ...

http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/system/defaultprinter.htm

http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/system/setdefaultprinter.htm

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Randy Birch
MS MVP Visual Basic

http://vbnet.mvps.org/

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"Josh Madarasz" <jmadsoftware@a lltel.net> wrote in message
news:b7f1c$43e0 e02f$a6667525$2 1109@ALLTEL.NET ...
: Was hopeing someone could point out a good primer on printing. Am trying
to
: change the default printer, have the device names in a list box, but can't
: for the life of me figure out how to select one from the list box and set
: Printer = . Any help would be appreciated.
:
: Thank you,
: Josh Madarasz
:
:

[Josh Madarasz]

Re: Default Printer.


"Randy Birch" <rgb_removethis @mvps.org> wrote in message
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> Depending on your Windows version ...
>
> http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/system/defaultprinter.htm
>
> http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/system/setdefaultprinter.htm
>
> --
>
> Randy Birch
> MS MVP Visual Basic
> http://vbnet.mvps.org/
>
> Please reply to the newsgroups so all can participate.
>
>
>
>
> "Josh Madarasz" <jmadsoftware@a lltel.net> wrote in message
> news:b7f1c$43e0 e02f$a6667525$2 1109@ALLTEL.NET ...
> : Was hopeing someone could point out a good primer on printing. Am
> trying
> to
> : change the default printer, have the device names in a list box, but
> can't
> : for the life of me figure out how to select one from the list box and
> set
> : Printer = . Any help would be appreciated.
> :
> : Thank you,
> : Josh Madarasz
> :
> :[/color]

Thank you,
Just what I needed. Was driving me crazy trying to figure
it out. Guess thats what I get for starting out with x86 Assembly, Pascal,
Fortran, and then Visual Basic. All self taught. Hmmm, Okay, so I Started
out with Comodore Basic. :( :) But anyway, appreciate it, Helped out
considerably.