Printing on Dot-Matrix Printer, Stop and Restart

[Gurbinder Kaur]

Hi,

i have made a project for printing fee receipt. Using Windows-XP, VBasic 6.0 & Ms-Access-97. i have designed a form for prinring receipts. m paper-size is 5x10. Two copies of bills in this size. one for student and other for fee clerk. while printing on dot-matrix, form get printed, but size is A4. My problem is
* how to change size to 5x10 (exactly half of printed paper width-wise)
* after printing on this size, stop the printer and not to eject
* Restarting fee receipt printing for next student on paper.

send code snippet.

Please ans. me and thanks

[Killer42]

I think you should try playing with the properties of the Printer object in VB. It has properties like PaperSize, PaperBin and so on, which are probably relevant to your situation.

[manoj bhatt]

How u print the data through printer? using print #1 method or printer.print method?. If ur data is in english language, u will not get any problem, try print #1 method, open LPT1 (connect yr printer in LPT port) in write mode and transfer the data through print #1 method, everything will work, u will get speed and control over printer.

[Gurbinder Kaur]

Hi,

i have made a project for printing fee receipt. Using Windows-XP, VBasic 6.0 & Ms-Access-97. i have designed a form for prinring receipts. m paper-size is 5x10. Two copies of bills in this size. one for student and other for fee clerk. while printing on dot-matrix, form get printed, but size is A4. My problem is
* how to change size to 5x10 (exactly half of printed paper width-wise)
* after printing on this size, stop the printer and not to eject
* Restarting fee receipt printing for next student on paper.

send code snippet.

Please ans. me and thanks

Thanks Sir,

i will apply your suggestions and inform you soon

[Gurbinder Kaur]

How u print the data through printer? using print #1 method or printer.print method?. If ur data is in english language, u will not get any problem, try print #1 method, open LPT1 (connect yr printer in LPT port) in write mode and transfer the data through print #1 method, everything will work, u will get speed and control over printer.

Thanks Sir,

i will do that and reply you what happened,

ok bye.

[utprav123]

Hi,

i have made a project for printing fee receipt. Using Windows-XP, VBasic 6.0 & Ms-Access-97. i have designed a form for prinring receipts. m paper-size is 5x10. Two copies of bills in this size. one for student and other for fee clerk. while printing on dot-matrix, form get printed, but size is A4. My problem is
* how to change size to 5x10 (exactly half of printed paper width-wise)
* after printing on this size, stop the printer and not to eject
* Restarting fee receipt printing for next student on paper.

send code snippet.

Please ans. me and thanks

HI
I M UTPAL


CAN U TAL ME HOW CAN WE DONE IN VB DOS PRINTING CASH RECEIPT
PRINTER AUTOMATICELY EJECT AND INISILYSE THE PRINTER
CAH U TALE ME ABOUT THER CODE.

[andreist]

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hi, can you show that code on this forum so we can also know about print#1 method or printer.print method
please ... because i have same trouble

[andreist]

How u print the data through printer? using print #1 method or printer.print method?. If ur data is in english language, u will not get any problem, try print #1 method, open LPT1 (connect yr printer in LPT port) in write mode and transfer the data through print #1 method, everything will work, u will get speed and control over printer.

hi, can you show that code on this forum so we can also know about print#1 method or printer.print method
please ... because i have same problem

thanks

[CyberSoftHari]

Hi,
i have made a project for printing fee receipt. Using Windows-XP, VBasic 6.0 & Ms-Access-97. i have designed ...

You can code like this,
[CODE=vb]
On Error GoTo ErrTrap
Open LPT1 For Output As #1
Write #1, PrintString1
Write #1, PrintString2
Close #1
'exit method
ErrTrap:
MsgBox Err.Description , vbCritical + vbOKOnly
[/CODE]

Pass PrintStrings between paper size.

[andreist]

Thanks about your response ...
But there is more complicate situation on my form.
I have data in subform and mainform, for example:

On mainform:
---------------------------------------------------------
Date: 08/13/2009 Name: Andrew
---------------------------------------------------------
On subform:
---------------------------------------------------------
Item 1
Item 2
Item 3
...
...
---------------------------------------------------------

What kind of syntax that i can use for that situation? (print #1 method or printer.print method)

Actually I already have the report for that form but the problem is the printer can't be stop eject after print for last line on dot matrix printer then make long distance from last line to end of paper size. Can I just stop the printer eject after the last line with VBA?