Questions tagged [printers]

A Printer is a peripheral which produces a text or graphics of documents stored in electronic form, usually on physical print media such as paper or transparencies.

Printers are routinely classified by the printer technology they employ; numerous such technologies have been developed over the years.

Based on the Print quality printers are characterized as follows,

  • Toner-based printers
  • Liquid inkjet printers
  • Solid ink printers
  • Dye-sublimation printers
  • Inkless printers

Source: Wikipedia (Printer)

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How to send data (>64 bytes) to HID printer on Windows

I am currently trying to send a string of arbitrary length to a Boca FGL46 Thermal Printer (A HID Printer) with java. On MacOS this works without issue; A 100 byte payload leads to a 100 byte output report. On windows, however, the output report is…
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Can't get print from label printer via USB

I have Brother QL-570 label printer and it's Vender-id = 1273 and Product-id = 8232. I want to take simple text print using my android app. Printer is connected to my phone with USB port. I am not getting any error or even any result. Below is my…
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How to print receipts on BLE Thermal Printers for a Xamarin Forms mobile app?

I am totally new to the bluetooth world and I am current using Xamarin Forms framework to build an app which providing the feature of receipt printing on BLE printer (Currently using Mustek MK380 Thermal Printer as test device). I am using this…
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Printing on a Bluetooth printer

I need to print on a Bluetooth printer. I already have a program for the Windows mobile platform, that sends commands and data via Bluetooth to a Zebra RW 420 printer, using the Zebra Printer Protocol. It's just a stream sent on Bluetooth. Now, we'd…
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Print a .PDF File using Different Printers in Java

I'm trying to write an integration for enterprise system. There is a web server who is being used by many clients from two different place. There are two network printers installed on this server. What I want to do is to print PDF documents to…
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Build was configured to prefer settings repositories over project repositories but repository 'Google' was added by build file 'build.gradle'

A problem occurred evaluating root project when adding allprojects{}. Caused by: org.gradle.api.InvalidUserCodeException: Build was configured to prefer settings repositories over project repositories but repository 'Google' was added by build file…
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How to create a virtual printer using Node.js

I try to create virtual printer like this I tried to use ipp-printer module create virtual printer but I can't add my printer var fs = require('fs') var Printer = require('ipp-printer') var printer = new Printer({name:"my-printer",…
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Win32_Printer remote WMI query really slow

I'm trying to update some information on some printers on a remote server. I need to update stuff like location, comment and port. I have a solution that works, but I find it very slow, and I was wondering if anyone have any idea of why. I get the…
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Using the Printers Unit in Delphi

I want to access the Printers Unit in Delphi XE7. I am not able to do this, because „the Printers Unit cannot be resolved“ as shown on this image: As a beginner in Delphi, I don’t know what to do. Don’t judge me. Is there a way of adding a…
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Invoke HP Print Service plugin from app?

With Samsung devices, I can see HP print service plugin is installed and few apps like Gallery can make use of it. Is there anyway an app can invoke and pass data to print?
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Can I get the images for printers in .NET?

If I open up "Devices and Printers" on my machine (Windows 7), I see something like this for the printers: Is there a way to get these images from the OS in my WPF application? I would like to list printers much like this, but right now I only…
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ManagementException: Generic failure accessing Win32_Printer (resulting in RPC server is unavailable)

This is an exception that recently started occurring had on a server2003 and 2008r2: ManagementException: Generic failure Stack: at System.Management.ManagementException.ThrowWithExtendedInfo(ManagementStatus errorCode) at…
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Printing files in java with raster PTR printer

I have two peices of code for printing using java as seen below: The First Code for(int i = 0; i < files.length; i++) { String file = "C:\\images\\colour\\"+files[i].getName(); String filename = file; PrintRequestAttributeSet pras = new…
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How to properly install virtual printer using WinAPI on Win x64?

I am trying to install virtual printer from C++ console program using WinAPI calls. It works fine on Windows XP, but on Windows 7 x64 there are some processes which lock files in system folders, required for install. I think they appear only on x64…
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Get PDF file from printer via Python scan instruction

I need to send the scan instruction to the printer via Python and get the PDF file back. The standard Windows Paint program, for example, can send a scan instruction to any printer in the world, I need to do the same as Paint does only in Python,…
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