Printer...Urgent

[Manish]

can anyone tell me how can I stop a printer at specified point...basically I want to use custom paper size but the problem is I am using a dot matrix printer object of this printer not allowing me to set the custom size for the paper. Can anyone help me in this.
Thanx Manish

[Manish]

HI
THIS IS NT WHAT I WANT...LET SAY I HAVE A PAGE HVING HEIGHT 6 INCHES... SO WHEEVRE I I SEND A PRINTER.ENDDOC IT SHLD STOP AT THE PAGE LENGTH SPECIFIED I CAN'Y USE THAT OPEN FILE METHOD BCZ THE TEXT WHICH I WANT TO PRINT IN THAT IN DIFF FONT AN DIF I USE THIS METHOD IT WILL PRINT THE DATA IN THE DEFAULT FONT.

[Aaron Young]

You could bypass the Printer Object and Print Directly to the Printer Port, eg.

Dim iFile As Integer
iFile = FreeFile
Open "LPT1:" For Output As iFile
Print #iFile, "Line of Printed Text"
Close iFile



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Aaron Young
Analyst Programmer
aarony@redwingsoftware.com
adyoung@win.bright.net