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Subject: Re: Connect to Default Printer
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On Thu, 24 Mar 2016 13:39:18 +1300, Bryon Fawcett <jandbfawcett@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:

>Good afternoon.
>
>Could you please advise me how to connect the python software to my default
>printer.
>
	That would depend upon the OS and what type of output you intend to
produce -- the most compatible form is to generate a FILE, and use OS
provided utilities to print said file after the fact.

	I've not seen anything that allows direct output to a printer since the
late 80s (many printers don't even understand a raw text file these days;
they expect either PostScript or something that is a printer-specific
stream of pixel data obtained from a memory image of the page).

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12723818/print-to-standard-printer-from-python
(which links to http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/print.html )
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