DOS based printing

dhananjay

Dear All ,
Is DOS based printing is possible in Navision ?
if yes then what is procedure to print report on DOS based printer ?



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dhananjay

kine

Search for "Generic text printer".

themave

DOS ? what is that ?

Just kidding sort of, it is time to move away from DOS, tell them to buy a new printer. The printer is fully depreciated, probably like 10 years ago.

ara3n

well a lot of label printers do not have windows drivers.
Lanham has a label printing granule that creates the text files and copies them to the printer port through shell command.

Asallai

Did you try the

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

http://www.mibuso.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20765&highlight=shell
or the DOS command is

COPY text.txt LPT1

or something this, that I remember :roll:

MCalcini

After the print I must delete the file...How I can do it?...
I can't use FileName.CREATETEMPFILE because i must CLOSE the file before print with SHELL but with CLOSE delete the file.

kine

See ERASE command. But you need to do it in right time.

Still for me it is easier to use the Generic text printer to send the report to the printer. If correctly done, you do not have problems with the report design...