how do you print in C

**anduril462** · 11-08-2013

Originally Posted by oogabooga

And you could of course try anduril's approach, but you'll still have to be able to refer to your printer somehow.

Well, if you use ConnectToPrinterDlg function (Windows), it will do it's best to connect to the printer you selected and return a handle to it. After that, I'm guessing the following functions might be helpful. Browsing MSDN and Googling for some examples and tutorials would be a good idea.
buthttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd162751(v=vs.85).aspx
AddJob function (Windows)
StartDocPrinter function (Windows)
StartPagePrinter function (Windows)

**artistunknown** · 11-08-2013

sorry I took so long to reply my system command was

system("print /D:usb001 REPORT.txt");

It gives me the message

unable to initialize device usb001

**artistunknown** · 11-09-2013

redirection doen't work neither it just opens the REPORT.txt in notepad which isn't what I want because I have a formfeed in the report and I would like for it to recognize it
and I'm not sure the formfeed would be recognized by the printer in dos either

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