Changing background color of a printer line?

[teetime3]

How can I change the background color of a single printed line on a printer? thanks!!!!!!!!!!

[teetime3]

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[jim mcnamara]

Okay. You want an answer.

One way is to use a Postscript printer and actually build a postscript file that you send directly to the printer itself, bypassing the GDI. You have to know ps syntax.
You can bypass the GDI by sending the entire ps file via Escape (see Below)

If you have the printer manual, and there is some kind of control sequence to do what you want (like ESC#P3{u or whatever }
then you can send the command to the printer like this:

Private Declare Function Escape Lib "gdi32" (ByVal hdc As Long, _
  ByVal nEscape As Long, ByVal nCount As Long, _
  ByVal lpInData As String, lpOutData As Any) As Long

Sub printit()
    Dim myEscapeCode as String
    Dim undoEscapeCode as String
    Dim i
    myEscapeCode = chr(27) & "{RF&}"  " obviously a made up string
    undoEscapeCode = chr(27) & "[someMoreCrudGoesHere}"
    ' assume you want to change line #5
    for x = 1 to 4
         Printer.Print strTextArray(x)
    next x
    Escape Printer.hdc,PASTHRU, 1,myEscapeCode , 0&
    Printer.Print strTextArray(5)
    Escape Printer.hdc,PASTHRU, 1,myEscapeCode , 0&
    For x = 6 to 50
         Printer.Print strTextArray(x)
    next x
    Printer.EndDoc     
End Sub