Hellp please with printers

[john_murphy]

I have an application that has to print to 2 printers. They are serial printers and I have this working fine useing MSCOMM

The problem is that more than one PC has to print to the printer.

I want to print the stuff using the windows printer drivers but how would I do this.

I have all the stuff on strings and just want to throw these to the printer.

Help please

[JorgeLedo]

Are the printers shared ? If yes you can access them by choosing them in a printer dialog box or even directly (by code). If they are not shared I don't know if there is a way to communicate with a remote serial port.

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Jorge Ledo
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Portugal

[Aaron Young]

Once you've add the Printers to the Printers Folder in Windows, you can Access them from VB via the Printer Object, ie.

Function SetPrinter(ByVal PrinterName As String) As String
    Dim oPRN As Printer
    For Each oPRN In Printers
        If LCase(oPRN.DeviceName) = LCase(PrinterName) Then
            SetPrinter = Printer.DeviceName
            Set Printer = oPRN
            Exit For
        End If
    Next
End Function

Use this Function to Set the Printer Object to a Specific Printer, by passing the Name of the Printer, ie.

sOldPrinter = SetPrinter("Generic/Text Only")

The Name of the Current Printer is Returned, so that if need be you can easily restore it by Calling the Function again.

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Aaron Young
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