Trying to control OKI Microline 590 24-pin printer

[rgould8 at aol.com]

 Well, what I'm trying to do is create a tool that allows a shipping company to print their shipping forms, but use data from a host-based database.

I would have thought that Microsoft Excel would be a lousey print-formatting tool too, but somehow they use it.? If I can create a tool that can do this and bypass Excel, then it's a win-win.

The goal would be to allow a user to enter data via a nice GUI front-end, and then allow the user to select that data record at any point in time and print the shipping form to the dot-matrix printer.


 


 

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Barncard <stephenREVOLUTION at barncard.com>
To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Sun, 27 May 2007 1:23 am
Subject: Re: Trying to control OKI Microline 590 24-pin printer









Pour through the manual and see if you can find anything about how 
the printer uses tabs. Also try and select a monospaced font.?
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A Web browser would make a lousy print layout tool.?
?

Your workflow description is not clear; what exactly are you trying 
to accomplish??
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>Say, I'm writing an app for a company that prints shipping paperwork 
>on a 24-pin OKI Microline 590 24-pin printer.? I've started off by 
>getting my hands on some working Excel spreadsheets that print to 
>the printer, with the correct character positioning and spacing to 
>fix exactly in the right spaces on the page printout.?

>?

>My questions are:?

>?

>1)? Is there a way I can somehow detect the character positioning 
>that spits of out Excel, so that I can replicate it in Revolution 
>and print to the printer??

>?

>and?

>?

>2)? I'm also toying with the idea of making the printout entirely 
>web-browser based - - - if I did that, I'd still need to work on 
>getting the exact character-positioning for the printer.? Any 
>drawbacks??

>?

>and?

>?

>3)? In the event that regular ol' HTML browser text doesn't work, 
>anyone know of I can somehow dynamically create a PDF document from 
>a web-server that could be printed that would do the same thing??

>?
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