[RESOLVED] Printer Power Save

[PaulTilley]

Hi All

I have an Oki C7350 Colour Laser printer.
It goes into power save (which I would like to keep set, as is) after x mins.

The trouble is, when I send a print job, it takes ages to come out of power save and warm up before printing.

This is used for retail receipt printing from my own VB6 system and causes a long wait for the customer before the print job is complete.

What I would like to do is send some sort of command/dummy print job to the printer at the start of the sale process, so that when the sale is complete and the receipt is ready to be printed, the printer is out of power save, warmed up and ready to jump to life immediately.

Ideally, something in VB6 would be best, but I am able to shell a DOS command if needs be.


Over to you guys now, as you are all far better than me at this sort of thing.

Thanks in advance.

Paul