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Re: USB ports - can no-one help?

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From: Stephan Laska
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 17:02
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"David Ayre" <davidcayre@aol.com> wrote in message
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> I don't think that would help as I am sending data to a dot-matrix printer
and not using TPrinter.

that's the point. by using TPrinter, you forgo having to figure out things
that are already set up at the OS level.  You create a canvas, print to the
canvas, and send that to the printer.

When you send things to LPT: it's funneled through a hardware port
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