USB port printer

[Azizul Haq]

How can I use deirectly a printer attached to a USB port through VB6 coding?d

[Killer42]

How can I use deirectly a printer attached to a USB port through VB6 coding?

Don't. Use the Printer object. It's much safer.

[Killer42]

Don't. Use the Printer object. It's much safer.

Azizul Haq, you appear to have used the "Report" button instead of the "Reply" button. Please try again.

[Azizul Haq]

Many of my clients want to use the printer to print discrete page and want the printer to stop where the bill finishes. I use: Open "Lpt1" for output as #1
which works better in win98 and XP but it fails for USB printer and network printer.
The printer object gives full page in XP because Printer.Height property does not work in XP. Please Help for USB port and network printer.

[Killer42]

many of my clients want to use the printer to print descrete page and want the printer to stop where the bill finishes. I use: Open "Lpt1" for output as #1
which works better in wn98 and xp but it fails for usb printer and network printer.
The printer object gives full page in xp because printer.height property does not work in xp. Plese Help for USB port and network printer.

I don't know anything about using USB or network printers, perhaps someone else here does? Perhaps it's just a matter of finding the correct port name to open.

However, I would like to ask - have you tried adjusting the Printer.PaperSi ze property?

[Azizul Haq]

Printer.PageSiz e picks the pre-adjusted paper size but does not work as I want. My dynamic paper size starts from 7 lines and maximum paper size is up to 500 lines on continuous paper. It should stop anywhere when the lines finish.

[Killer42]

Well, I'm fresh out of ideas so I'll throw in a bunch of links to possibly relevant sites I just found in Google...

http://www.lvr.com/parport.htm

http://www.dataq.com/products/software/activex.htm

http://www.brothersoft.com/downloads/vb-printer.html

http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread677530.html

http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic12772.html

http://geekswithblogs.net/dtotzke/articles/26204.aspx

If these don't help, I recommend further searching, through Google or perhaps on the MSDN website.

[Killer42]

Just a thought. If you run this...[CODE=vb]Dim p As Printer
For Each p In Printers
Debug.Print p.Port, p.DeviceName
Next[/CODE]...then try using the port name reported, instead of LPT1, what happens?

[Killer42]

... I want to take a print of a msflexgrid in vb6 ...

Since this is a new question, please start a new discussion thread for it. Don't tack it onto the end of this one.