Printing - not ending the page

[speg]

Hey, I need to print a single line. Then 15 minutes later print another line (on the same page). I don't want to waste all that paper by printing each line to it's own page, is their anyway I can do this?

 

[GOstlund]

Well, you could do it with a dot-matrix printer using dos or linux... AFAIK, your only option for doing this under windows would be to buffer until you've got a whole page and then send that whole page...

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HTH
Gavin Ostlund

 

[speg]

Yeah they're (my employer) using a dot-matrix for this. I guess I could use DOS... If I knew how Where can I start.

 

[fumei]

Seems like a contradiction.

Print a line, then 15 minutes later print another line.

Print is print. If you print a line, then it is going to print a page. Printers print sheets.

If you need to capture a line, then later capture another line, why not capture each line to a file, then when you are done, print the file?

I am missing something here.

Gerry

 

[speg]

We have an old dot-matrix printer, and some code (I don't know who or how it was made) that prints one line at a time.

We tried the collecting of lines, and then printing them all off on a page, but since each new line comes in every 15 mins it takes many hours to collect a page worth of data. The client wanted to be able to have an up-to date hard copy. I don't know.... Im just the co-op student!

 

[fumei]

GOstlund seems to have it. I don't see any other way than to to buffer it.

There is still a contradiction. If the the client wants an up to date hard copy, they are STILL going to have to remove the whole sheet. Not unless they are going to walk over to the printer and look at the one line, and then wait for the next line 15 minutes later (on the same page). If they want a line by line hard copy, they they are going to have to pull out the whole sheet.

Gerry