Re: [U2] How do you verify windows printer is good before fatal error by PRINTing to a bogus printer.
Bill Haskett <[email protected]>
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You know, I was able to integrate all printers into U2 by writing a few simple programs and using Print Wizard to convert our PCL5 output into a ".pdf" file. This way, I never work with printers at the UD level any more. And PW is an awesome product with awesome support. Bill Untitled Page ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- Original Message ----- *From:* [email protected] *To:* U2 Users List <[email protected]> *Date:* 1/28/2014 12:54 PM *Subject:* Re: [U2] How do you verify windows printer is good before fatal error by PRINTing to a bogus printer. > On 28/01/14 20:31, Jeff Schasny wrote: >> I've been using Universe since it was in beta and I had no idea you >> could use a URI in SETPTR. >> >> Its a good day, I've learned something new. Thanks! > Just watch out. In today's modern world of GDI printers, sending a raw > text dump from UV is often not a good idea. > > In the old days of dot-matrix, or even PCL that just expected a text > stream, it worked fine. It's nowhere near that simple any more :-( > > Cheers, > Wol >> Wols Lists wrote: >>> So if I am working on \\ASHDOWN (the name of my computer) I can use >>> SETPTR to point at \\TIGGER\HP - a printer logically connected to a >>> different computer that I've never told UV anything about. >>> >>> Setptr is quite happy to be given a windows remote computer reference >>> and it works fine. That was how all our printers worked - they usually >>> had network cards in them, so when a new printer turned up, I would >>> assign it a name in DNS, and for anybody who was supposed to use it I >>> would just edit their login script to add eg >>> >>> SETPTR ...,AT \\ACCOUNTS-HP\RAW >>> >>> And it just worked. No UV printer setting up whatsoever. Okay, my setup >>> was a little bit cleverer than that, but everything, and I mean >>> EVERYTHING, was done in my programs. Nothing at the UV level whatsoever. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Wol > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users