Hellp please with printers

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

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

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

Code:

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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

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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
Analyst Programmer
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