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Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 10:50 am
by Charles256
upc info is entered on a previous page then i generate the layout. and i'm setting this script up on the clients computer so i hcan change anything i need to at all. it's not the spaces between words it's the fact that it feeds an entire page worth of labels where i just want it to print the upc's then stop feeding more paper to the printer.make sense?maybe?

Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 10:58 am
by RobertGonzalez
Is this a feed printer? I guess what I really am asking is there a way to stop a page from completely printing?

Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 11:02 am
by Charles256
it's a feed printer. one of those that is pin fed. still don't know how to make it stop printing once the text is done?

Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 11:04 am
by RobertGonzalez
If you are sending a page to the printer the printer will print the page regardless of what is on the page. I think that is how Pin Fed printers work. I am not sure you can start and stop the printer in the middle of a page.

Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 12:42 pm
by Charles256
yeah.back on dos i could stop things mid print.but that was back in the day.don't think it's possible anymore..or if it is i just can't think of w ay...

Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 2:32 pm
by feyd
Direct port writes?

Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 7:56 pm
by Charles256
how do you doa direct port write?

Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 8:40 pm
by feyd
It's been a long time since I've done it.. the last time being in Pascal Image, so I can't help much there, sorry. It should be theoretically possible however, most of the underlaying facilities are still there in Windows.

I'm assuming this printer is attached to the machine processing PHP so I'll throw this out there too: http://php.net/ref.printer. I have no clue if that would work, but it's a possible research avenue for you.

Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 10:20 pm
by Charles256
tempted to tellhim to shove it :-D

Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 10:49 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Thata boy. Tell him what can be done and steer him clear of what can't be done.