Dos based Report Printing

milind

Is it possible to print reports in Dos base mode insteade of windows base

ta5

We once had to send some data to a strange printer that had problems with the windows driver.

Therefore we wrote a report that actually writes a file and then excecutes a shell command like this:

shell(c:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe type >myfilename.txt myprintername)

Hope this helps

Regards
Thomas

kine

You can try the "Generic Text printer". It is driver for printers, which enables you to print everything as plain text with some possible "control characters" for enabling some text printers features (bold printing, bigger or smaller texts etc.).

Miklos_Hollender

These printers are hell on Earth as the drivers are usually imperfect. The really best option is, as above, to write a text file and send it to the printer. The drivers are usually good enough to handle a text file. And if they aren't then that's not your fault as it's happening outside Navision. The way I did this is COPY file.txt LPT1: but that doesn't work for network printers. Maybe ta5's solution does.

jlandeen

My first question after reading your initial post is why are you trying to print to a Text Printer? Is this something that is being printed off on a Dot Matrix printer? The reason I ask is because that's typically when I've ever had to consider printing via text.

However the last few times I've done this rather then spending time trying to get things formatted in a text file or some other non-standard means I just simply revised the printed layout and used a windows Generic Print Driver.