Network printing
[1/6] from: coussement:c:itc:mil:be at: 19-Dec-2000 17:33
Hi Rebolians:
Does anyone know how I could get REBOL/Command print to a network printer ?
I tried:
>> p: open prn://CRSSRV002/CATPrint ====> this last is the network name of
the printer
** Access Error: Invalid port spec: prn://CRSSRV002/CATPrint.
** Where: p: open prn://CRSSRV002/CATPrint
Any suggestion ?
Regards,
Christophe
[2/6] from: bo:rebol at: 19-Dec-2000 9:23
Christophe,
Some network printers support the FTP protocol. Perhaps this would be a
good method to try.
Hope this helps!
-Bo
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>Hi Rebolians:
>Does anyone know how I could get REBOL/Command print to a network printer ?
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[3/6] from: mat:eurogamer at: 19-Dec-2000 17:31
Heya bo,
brc> Some network printers support the FTP protocol. Perhaps this would be a
brc> good method to try.
Don't they operate out of a spool dir? Or at least Epson stuff does.
You could set up FTP and FTP into the spool dir I suppose?
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[4/6] from: ric_shepard:fishgame:state:ak:us at: 19-Dec-2000 9:51
Using REBOL/Command in a Windows type (e.g., peer to peer, NT server, SAMBA)
network environment you can access network printer(s) by:
creating a printer connection
>> call "NET USE LPTx \\SERVER\PRINTER"
echo to the printer
>> echo %LPT1 print "This is a printer test" echo none
or use a port
>> ptr: open/lines %LPT1
>> insert tail ptr "This is line 1"
>> insert tail ptr "This is line two"
>> close ptr
or .... all the other 'port' variations ....
kill the printer connection
>> call "NET USE LPT1 /DELETE"
HTH
CRS - Psy Sel/SPO, COUSSEMENT Christophe, CPN
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> Does anyone know how I could get REBOL/Command print to a network printer ?
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[5/6] from: coussement:c:itc:mil:be at: 20-Dec-2000 9:03
Ric:
Thanks for your answer: it works all OK ! :-))
Perhaps there's no multiplatform approach to this problem, but I was just
wondering why the problem was not discussied in the Core User guide or in
the 'official guide'...
After all, it remains an essential feature ( just think about reports ...).
OK, you can generate a magnificent html page which you can print. But what
about it if you have 100 different reports to print (like I have). Does the
operator then have to execute 100 times the same print procedure ?... Lot of
work ! Bad approach !
I hope RT will consider this problem, and bring a solution...
Regards,
Christophe
[6/6] from: coussement::c::itc::mil::be at: 20-Dec-2000 9:05
Bo:
Thanks for your answer, but this won't work in our actual env...
But I will try to implement such a solution in a near futur !
Regards,
Christophe
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