Printing Crystal report in dos Mode

Hi. If you want to print to a DOS printer, then you need to send all the data, line by line, to the printer. If you need to use the different fonts that the printer has built in, then you send them also, by using escape codes. Generally, escape codes will be a Chr(27), followed by the codes that you want to use. For instance, to get italic on a typical printer using Epson LQ-850 emulation, you would send this:

Code:

Print #1, Chr(27); Chr(52); 'italic on

Now to turn Italic off, do this:

Code:

Print #1, Chr(27); Chr(53); 'italic off

To print an entire page of data, you will need to do all the formatting yourself, which is not that big a deal once you get the hang of it.

Here are some codes you may want to use:

Code:

Print #1, Chr(27); Chr(64); 'reset Print #1, Chr(27); Chr(67); Chr(32); 'page length in lines Print #1, Chr(27); Chr(107); Chr(3); 'font Print #1, Chr(27); Chr(77); 'pitch 12 Print #1, Chr(27); Chr(119); Chr(1); Chr(14); 'double high & wide Print #1, Chr(27); Chr(120); Chr(1); 'letter quality Print #1, Chr(27); Chr(65); Chr(5); '5/60 inch line feed Print #1, Chr(27); Chr(52); 'italic Print #1, Chr(27); Chr(53); 'italic off Print #1, Chr(27); Chr(119); Chr(0); Chr(20); 'double high & wide off Print #1, Chr(27); Chr(48); '1/8 inch line feed

Have fun!!