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Setting up paper source

Hi

I'm writing a software that prints receipts using a thermal printer.
I don't want my user to set up the paper source i want to do it in my
code, how do i do that?

Much Luv

Tumzadoc

Jul 23 '05 #1
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Tumzadoc wrote:
Hi

I'm writing a software that prints receipts using a thermal printer.
I don't want my user to set up the paper source i want to do it in my
code, how do i do that?

Much Luv

Tumzadoc


You can set up the paper source by using platform
specific libraries. Please consult the FAQs and
welcome.txt below for more appropriate newsgroups.

BTW, the standard C++ language has no facilities
for setting up printers; not all platforms have
printers.

--
Thomas Matthews

C++ newsgroup welcome message:
http://www.slack.net/~shiva/welcome.txt
C++ Faq: http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite
C Faq: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/c-faq/top.html
alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++ faq:
http://www.comeaucomputing.com/learn/faq/
Other sites:
http://www.josuttis.com -- C++ STL Library book
http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl -- Standard Template Library

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