Printer Communication

[Tronic]

Does anyone have any links or articles on communicating with a printer?

I'm looking to save myself some time and be able to write an essay or the equivalent, and be able to print the document just by running a program...i.e I write a program to print out "Blah" on a piece of paper. If you have any idea how I could accomplish this, assistance is appreciated

[Salem]

http://cboard.cprogramming.com/searc...searchid=32680

[Tronic]

thats.....just beautiful T_T *cries*

Thanks Salem It worked! I don't really get why I have to press the resume button on my printer though....do you think you could help me with this?

Heres my code:

#include <stdlib.h>

int main()
{
  system("echo Hello World > LPT1");
  system("pause");
return 0;
}

Any ideas? It prints but I have to press the resume button on my printer before it prints for some reason....