How can I cleanly print a web page to a dot-matrix printer?

Question

I have an Epson LX 300 dot matrix printer.

I'm using PHP to create an HTML receipt, and am using Javascript's window.print() to ask the browser to print the web page. Unfortunately the printer can not handle the formatted text. Font sizes are incorrect, areas overlap, etc.

Printing normal text generated in Notepad and Wordpad does not cause any problems.

What can I do to fix this problem?

You're going to need to provide an example of the HTML you're building. Without knowing what you're actually trying to print, it's going to be nearly impossible to offer advice. — Charles, Dec 10 '12 at 08:04
i have the same proble. Does this problem fixed? I need help — rick jan cawaling, Oct 27 '15 at 05:10
@rickjancawaling have you found the solution, kindly share it — Vigneswaran S, Nov 26 '18 at 06:51

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 10 '12 at 08:09

You need to create different css rules for printing, and set them on your page this way

<LINK rel="stylesheet" type"text/css" href="print.css" media="print">

Inside this css you can set display:none to images, set universal font-size for all elements without changing anything on your site.

How can I cleanly print a web page to a dot-matrix printer?

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