Hi All,

I am new to this forum and also to VB. Can anyone of you guide me how to use the printer object in VB. I need to print a bill in my project and the printing should stop immediately after the footer of the bill is printed. Do let me know any help or tutorial websites for the same.

Thanking you in advance.

Regards,

Vinay.

Vinay,
The best help for Printer object is MSDN. Go through it. Printer object work like Printer.print "Text" but for formatting the text in it you will have to use the various methods availabe with printer object, like CurrentX, CurrentY and others. But for properly aligning the text you will have to work out with the length of page and length of text too. I will suggest go through the MSDN HElp for Printer object.

And you can use killdoc or related methods for stopping the print.

when you use the print object to print, you have to literally re-build the entire form that you want to print, in your head.Then send each item on the form to the print object.
For example, if your header is a rectangle, you have to tell the print object to draw a rectangle at a certain x and y location, then you have to tell it to fill it a certain color, then tell it to print the text that you want in it.  Every single little thing on your form you have to do this way. It really isnt as bad as it sounds, cause you can create a routine that does all of that automatically.  If this sounds like the info your after, reply here and i'll send you the routine that will print almost everything you need,almost.  You still can modify it even further than it is, but i think it'll help you.

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Filbert wrote:
when you use the print object to print, you have to literally re-build the entire form that you want to print, in your head.Then send each item on the form to the print object.
For example, if your header is a rectangle, you have to tell the print object to draw a rectangle at a certain x and y location, then you have to tell it to fill it a certain color, then tell it to print the text that you want in it.  Every single little thing on your form you have to do this way. It really isnt as bad as it sounds, cause you can create a routine that does all of that automatically.  If this sounds like the info your after, reply here and i'll send you the routine that will print almost everything you need,almost.  You still can modify it even further than it is, but i think it'll help you.

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