You can also set any other nonstandard number of characters per inch. If your report is large, the letters will be too small. The default font is "Courier New". Click here for more details. Default is 24 or 48 pin compatibility. Default is "Old" style. As you can see on the image, the old style letters are bigger and more readable. This switch affects 17 and 20 cpi font size only.
Useful with matrix printers. There are two different worlds in printing: text mode and graphical mode. The graphical mode becomes the issue with matrix printers - they are just too slow in graph mode and DOSPrinter by default works in graph mode.
On the other side, there are ink-jets and laser printers; even if some of them do have the text-mode printing capabilities, they are not so slow in graphical mode, so this switch is obsolete for this kind of printers.
So, where is the purpose for this switch? First: If you have a text-mode printer with USB port, you cannot print directly to it from a DOS program, and this switch is one of the possible solutions for that.
Prevents showing the error message dialog window. Note that there is no space between EURO and nnn. It is proportionally prolonged when the file changes during the delay. Delaying is suitable when the input file closes before it is completed buffered file writing.
Default value is 0 no delay. This switch cuts the large reports in multiple spool jobs. Smaller nn value means smaller jobs and faster starting of printing. Use this switch sparingly in a multiuser environment, because your printed pages might be interspersed with other documents that are using the same printer spooler.
This is useful with nonstandard paper sizes. If you are using a common paper size like Letter, A4, A5, etc, then you don't need to specify this switch. In that case DOSPrinter fits the text width automatically to the paper width.
If x and y are not specified, the default is 0. If dpi not specified the default is The background image should be a light color image to not interfere with the foreground text. If not specified, the job name by default is 'DOSPrinter'. Job name is visible in the printer spooler queue and in printer status window that shows the ink level. English is default. If using English you can delete the file Language.
Notes: Switches can be in any combination and sequence. Switches are case insensitive. If the filename contains spaces, use doublequotes. You can use full path absolute path or filename only relative path.
In the case of filename only, DOSPrinter searches the current directory for the filename. Examples: 1. RPT - just print the file named report.
You can change the settings by clicking on the tray icon. This way you will have DOSPrinter installed and active all the time without any intervention. RPT - print the report. After the file has changed, print it again. Before printing, show select printer dialog. After each file is printed, delete it automatically. Use the font named Lucida Console. Set the image watermark. The resolution will be DPI. This is a nonstandard ESC sequence.
If you are using some other command s , fell free to contact us for an update of DOSPrinter. Put inside the text to print this sequence: ESC"filename. Don't forget to enclose the filename in doublequotes. The image is printed with the resolution of DPI. This means that if you need the result image with dimensions 1inch x 1inch on the paper, you should provide an image with the size of pixels x pixels.
You can change the default resolution by specifying a new resolution for the image: ESC"filename. Note that there is no space between ESC and "filename". This is a nonstandard ESC command. This is useful for watermarking a company logo, or using a standard form image in the background of the text. How to select font: There are two ways to specify the printing font: 1. By using the ESCkn Select typeface sequence in your document. There are two types of fonts: fixed pitch and proportional pitch.
Fixed pitch means that every letter has the same width. DOSPrinter yields the best results with the fixed pitch fonts. Download this few fonts and try them. You can find much more fonts on the internet here and here. Majority of fonts are not free. With some laser printers, the printed text is too light with the default Courier New font. The solution is Dark Courier font. Click here for the instructions about how to install a new font.
By default DOSPrinter works with proportional mode turned off works in fixed pitch mode. Possible values are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. It is ignored by DOSPrinter. Other bits are ignored. BarCodeData are characters to be printed. DOSPrinter calculates the checksum digit automatically. You have to provide 12 digits. If provided 13 digits, the last digit is ignored and replaced by DOSPrinter in all cases.
Valid barcode characters are 13 digits in the range 0 - 9 Invalid characters are replaced with zeroes. Contents Exit focus mode. Is this page helpful? Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? Asked 7 years, 5 months ago. Active 7 years, 5 months ago. Viewed 21k times. I am trying to print a pdf file from dos, in windows xp.
Its showing the document in printer spooler window. When giving print normally from adobe reader , print is coming fine. What is wrong with my config. Improve this question. The Windows command-line interface is not called DOS, by the way. Add a comment. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. Is this page helpful? Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback?
Note You can perform many configuration tasks from the command prompt by using the Mode command , including configuring a printer connected to a parallel or a serial port, displaying printer status, or preparing a printer for code page switching.
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