What Is Dos Style Printing

[morphiz]

Hi,

What is DOS STYLE PRINTING and why is it faster that windows printing.

Is there anyway to use this mode of printing with Crystal reports??

If yes how??

if no then how to create a report and print it using DOS STYLE PRINTING??

[jim mcnamara]

What is DOS STYLE PRINTING and why is it faster that windows printing.

It's faster because it does no formatting, no graphics, it depends on the program to do all the work.

Is there anyway to use this mode of printing with Crystal reports??

Not really.

If yes how??

if no then how to create a report and print it using DOS STYLE PRINTING

There are TWO big problems with DOS style printing.

1. For each brand of printer, you have to use whatever language the printer accepts (PostScript, HP PCL, Escape sequences, etc) to do the printing. That means if you have to print on 10 different printers, you need may need 10 completely different print routines. You need the printer's programmers manual for each printer, unless it's something like PostScript, then you need the Adobe reference.

2. You will have to preprocess the Crystal Reports output by writing to a file, which defeats not using Windows in the first place. Then read it back in and format it such a way that it can be processed by one of your 10 different formatting sub-programs.

A better question is: what problem are you trying to solve?
Network Traffic? Long waits for multiple users at the printer?
What?