HP Laserjet printing from QuickBasic

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2 total messages Started by Orlin Melstrand Mon, 12 Oct 1992 17:17

#281

Author: Orlin Melstrand
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 17:17

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Is there any way to get QuickBasic to eject partial pages printed on the 
HP Laserjet?  I have a friend who has a Laserjet, and when he does a PRINT
from QuickBasic, he always has to use a manual page eject to get the last
partial page out.  Has this been fixed on Visual Basic?

Thanks.    

Orlin Melstrand

Re: HP Laserjet printing from QuickBasic

#280

Author: General Protection Fault
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 03:26

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In article <1992Oct12.171720.24441@medtron.medtronic.com> om8941@curry (Orlin M
elstrand) writes:
+Is there any way to get QuickBasic to eject partial pages printed on the
+HP Laserjet?  I have a friend who has a Laserjet, and when he does a PRINT
+from QuickBasic, he always has to use a manual page eject to get the last
+partial page out.  Has this been fixed on Visual Basic?
+
+Thanks.

Sure!  I'll assume you can send a line of text to the printer with something
like 

PRINT #1, "Print this string."

Using that same routine you can use

PRINT #1, CHR$(nn)

to print any of the 254 printable chars.  Just replace nn with the ASCII 
sequence number for the formfeed character.  I believe FF is #12 so you get...

PRINT #1, CHR$(12)

to send a form feed to LPTx.   I've also seen a DEBUG script which creates an 8 
byte .COM file you can run with the SHELL command.  You could accomplish this 
same task by writing a .BAS which calls the DOS interrupt to the printer or 
sends a FF char as above.  Your choice, the results are the same.

Keith.+
+Orlin Melstrand
+
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