Printing To A File

[mattx]

Anyone come up or know of some software [ free ] that you can drag .PRN files over to a printer and then they print ?

The only way I can work out so far is to use a command line instruction:

 

copy report.prn lpt1:

 

Of couse I don't want - [ and expect ] teachers to do this for a load of .prn files. I have a few ideas floating around in my head for a script but was wondering if anyone has any suggestions ?

[mattx]

Just found this - which may do the trick...

 

http://www.magma.ca/%7Erussrite/PrnPrint/index.html

[Geoff]

follow the instructions in this KB article.

 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/158081

 

Might need a bit of fiddling to make it go on XP though.

[mattx]

Ta muchly - that free prog I just DLed and tested works quite well too.

[NetworkGeezer]

I'm surprised you didn't do something in AutoIt, Matt

[mattx]

I'm surprised you didn't do something in AutoIt, Matt

 

Well.............. :-)

When I was looking into this for our NM the code started to appear in my brain - then I was worried I would have to start parsing the list of .prn files that needed printing - thank god I found that free utility !!