"M. Adam Davis" wrote:
>
> There are two issues to consider:
>
> 1) All laser printers and some (few) inkjet/bubblejet printers need to
> see a form feed character before printing a page.
> 2) Some printers have no brains, ie, they don't know how to take ascii
> input and form characters on the page, they only put dots where the
> computer tells them to.  Often referred to as winprinters, they require
> certian commands and codes to be sent to print anything.
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Those printers (with no brains) should be extinct at this point, since
thre is a required standard that all printers should print pure ascii
text.  Most of them use Courier 12 points as standard.  To make a test,
just go to a DOS partition and type "COPY C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT LPT1:" and
press enter. If your printer still quiet after that, press your printer
"eject" button, it would print the buffer contents, even if it requires
a "page eject" character "0Ch".