posted 19 years ago
Back in the old days you could just send bytes to LPT1: and that would be it.... no intermediary. But I'm sure your code isn't going to have an imbedded print driver, is it? So I conclude that you WILL need to use a printer driver.
I would be asking if there was a way to drop a file onto a printer (on a Windows platform, I presume). Then your program could read the file, pulling out the destination printer, create a file for printing, and then the magical step of dropping the file on the printer would happen. But you'd need to use some native code to do that. Someone else might have done it for you. Let us know what you find.