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Re: printing on serial port

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From: Mike Collins
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:08
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Is the printer recognised by Windows as a valid printer?

I've done exactly the same thing on a PoS system that we developed but i 
used the VCL TPrinter object and wrote directly onto it's canvas - worked 
perfectly, no problems.  Might be a consideration?

Mike C

"Borut" <borut@bokosoft.si> wrote in message 
news:44ca1798@newsgroups.borland.com...
>I have a problem with printing on dotmatrix printer (POS printer with 40
> characters in line). It works fine with printer on paralel port (LPT1) and
> with small number of lines but when I try to print 12 lines or more (on
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