Printing Condenced text

[Peter Zajac]

In my application I am sending plain text to the dot matrix printer. I am having problems to force the printer to print the text in condenced mode. Can someone please help me with this. Thank you Peter Zajac

[Chris Maunder]

Just send ASCII character #15 cheers, Chris ================== The original message was: In my application I am sending plain text to the dot matrix printer. I am having problems to force the printer to print the text in condenced mode.

Can someone please help me with this.

Thank you
Peter Zajac

[Member 1208965]

I think there may be difficulty in sending control characters to a dot matrix printer using the standard windows printing system, so I'm not sure you can just send character 15 to the printer.... Troy in our office mentioned that Windows supports a "plain text" printer driver that has limited capabilities (ie, might not support networkable connections etc.) but does allow you to send control codes. I'm sure I read an article in MSDN about this topic, when reviewing material on how to write a printer driver (we flirted with writing a fax printer driver years and years ago), and remember reading a passage about this. Sorry I don't have a more specific solution. David ================== The original message was: Just send ASCII character #15

cheers,
Chris

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The original message was:

In my application I am sending plain text to the dot matrix printer. I am having problems to force the printer to print the text in condenced mode.

Can someone please help me with this.

Thank you
Peter Zajac