Tutorial for two printers?

rbuser

Hi all,

Best of the holiday season to you and yours.

The new year means I've run out of excuses. This is the year
I take an external module I wrote to use Avery Label Pro to print
labels "in-house" to an application that began life as a D3 app,
continued usefully in D5 and now faces a D7 re-write. I'm bound and
determined that I will stop using the crutch of creating the data for
the label run and then running an external process to print it. Time
to get the two printing tasks up an running without leaving the app.

One printer is a network HP laser for doing reports. The other is
an Epson dot matrix for doing the labels, which have about a half
dozen variations. We are talking two different ports, two different
printing languages, two different paper sizes, two differont font
sets, too different for comfort.

Is there a tutorial for handling this from with RB coding? Any
snippets anybody has to offer? All and any suggestions gratefully
received.

Thanks in advance, GM
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nicocizik

Hi Gary,

This is possible by creating multiple PrinterdDevices, assigning each one to
a specific printer and calling PrintToDevices. Below is an example of
printing to multiple printers at the same time.

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/tips/PrintToMultiplePrinters.zip

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rbuser

Nico,

THanks for the pointer to the Tuturial example. Will start working on it
next year [G].

Best to you and yours. Everyone have a Happy New Year.
GM

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 08:14:39 -0700, "Nico Cizik \(Digital Metaphors\)"