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Re: Addressing the printer -- Newbie

From "blank" <blank@blankety.blank.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.help
References <4f6fbe47$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au> <jkq5vh$6br$1@dont-email.me>
Subject Re: Addressing the printer -- Newbie
Date 2012-03-28 05:26 +1100
Message-ID <4f720675@dnews.tpgi.com.au> (permalink)

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Thanks for that Knute...

Takes me back to my own flying days in the UK in a Cherokee!

But what an incredible amount of code when I can address the installed 
printer with 2 lines of code in VB6!

"Knute Johnson" <nospam@knutejohnson.com> wrote in message 
news:jkq5vh$6br$1@dont-email.me...
> On 3/25/2012 5:54 PM, blank wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> I am a keen programmer in Visual Basic 6. I also tried Visual Basic 
>> dot.net
>> but was appalled at the lack of printer support in dot.net.
>>
>> I am thinking of learning Java, but would like to know if the language
>> allows easy access to whatever printer is installed at a user site.
>> Therefore I cannot specify the printer when writing the code and must 
>> rely
>> on the operating system to route data to the printer.
>>
>> Is writing reports to the printer (formatted and with columns and so on 
>> as
>> in VB6) practical? With vb6 it is as simple as printer.print!
>>
>> Thanks heaps
>>
>>
>
> For some sample code, look at the VFRFlightLog program here;
>
> http://rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com/aviation/index.html
>
> -- 
>
> Knute Johnson 

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Addressing the printer -- Newbie "blank" <blank@blankety.blank.com> - 2012-03-26 11:54 +1100
  Re: Addressing the printer -- Newbie "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-03-25 21:01 -0400
    Re: Addressing the printer -- Newbie "blank" <blank@blankety.blank.com> - 2012-03-26 15:25 +1100
      Re: Addressing the printer -- Newbie "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-03-26 09:24 -0400
  Re: Addressing the printer -- Newbie Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-03-25 20:32 -0700
  Re: Addressing the printer -- Newbie Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2012-03-26 09:37 -0700
    Re: Addressing the printer -- Newbie "blank" <blank@blankety.blank.com> - 2012-03-28 05:26 +1100
      Re: Addressing the printer -- Newbie "blank" <blank@blankety.blank.com> - 2012-03-28 05:49 +1100
        Re: Addressing the printer -- Newbie Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2012-03-28 09:34 -0700

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