This is an age old problem but I still cant get to grips with it. I have written a program in C to print out a report wich works fine on my home computer. When I took it to work to show it off suprise suprise it didnt. Both computers use windows, mine is an epson printer and works is a Hewlett Packard. I know there are no standard printer routines in C but can someone tell me any tricks that might work.
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- Thread starter Denster
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Hello,
Although there are printers that speak the same language, most don't. If you write a windows-program you can get it pretty much to work because you can use the windows-printing system.
However, it seems to me you wrote a program that speaks the language for Epson printers, and not HP-printers. So what you need to do is get the printer-commands for the HP-printer (from their site) that do the same as the Epson printer, and use those in your program when printing on the HP.
Wouter Dijkslag
Although there are printers that speak the same language, most don't. If you write a windows-program you can get it pretty much to work because you can use the windows-printing system.
However, it seems to me you wrote a program that speaks the language for Epson printers, and not HP-printers. So what you need to do is get the printer-commands for the HP-printer (from their site) that do the same as the Epson printer, and use those in your program when printing on the HP.
Wouter Dijkslag
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