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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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Change default printer based on location

I would like to write a VBScript to change the default printer, based on which printer is connected. I have a laptop that I use at work and at home, and I would like to run this script when starting windows so the default printer is always the…
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Inserting a page Break in a text file by inserting FormFeed Character. Is this Universal solution?

Inserting a page Break in a text file by inserting FormFeed Character using Java. Is my solution universal or will it cause any problems? Sample Code: PrintWriter bof = response.getWriter(); // Obtained Writer from HTTP…
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Windows - Use a program as a virtual printer?

I'm looking for a simple installer, or even a registry file, that can create a virtual printer that just redirect the file about to be printed to my program Today I use Printer++ that use DLLs but it's not really practical for companies.. Today the…
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PowerShell change printer configuration from Administration tab

Im able to create and install printers using powershell. Now i also need to automate the printer configuration and need to change multiple values in the Administration tab. How can i do that via powershell? I tried Set-PrinterProperty but i can't…
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Paper definition for Brother QL-570 labels

I'm developing a webapp where I want to enable the user to print directly to the label printer (Brother QL-570). The label will contain a barcode and some text, and to achieve this I'm currently examining jsprintsetup Firefox addon. I've been able…
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Zebra printer: how to print UTF-8 special character

I need to print label with special character like degree (°). I'm using qz print applet on my website. How i can say to applet that i'm going to print UtF-8 character? Because it doesn't print correctly. Thanks!
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"Random" generated documents fail to print

We are attempting to generate documents using iText that are formed largely from "template" files - smaller PDF files that are combined together into one composite file using the PdfContentByte.addTemplate method. We then automatically and silently…
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PowerShell 4.0 Add-Printer

I've just installed PowerShell 4.0 on my Win7 SP1 box, (up from the 2.0 native version). PowerShell 3.0 was supposed to have included a bunch of handy printer-specific functions such as Add-Printer, Add-PrinterDriver, etc., but running a…
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Node.js : How to add print job to printer

I am developing a web application using node.js where i have a scenario to print some pdf files located in my local. Ex: var ipp = require('ipp'); var PDFDocument = require('pdfkit'); //make a PDF document var doc = new…
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Printer Status Monitoring adobe AIR Desktop App

Want a platform independent desktop app to check the toner/Cartridge level of a network printer and notify the user of the status and give him option to request for purchase of the toner if low. The info i got till now is that we need to fetch…
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print files with java using lpr

I'm writing an lpr client on java to send files (PDF, doc, etc) to a printer (hp laser-jet 4250dtn) Both client and server are running UNIX The printer is on a server (that's why I'm using lpr) Everything is all right and I indeed managing to open…
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MPP 101 Printer & Android

I want to create an android application (phone) which connect to MPP 101 Bluetooth printer and print some texts and a picture. Is this task feasible to do? If so can someone help me to find some useful material to to this task.
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How to set a Printer Port in C# on a specified Printer

I want to be able to do the equivalent of the following in c#: Go into "Devices and Printers" Right click a printer Go to the ports tab Select COM12: port click OK I have managed to get a ManagementObject for a named printer and tried to…
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addmonitor win32 call fails with lasterror 5

I have created a very small win32 console application (AddPrintMonitor.exe) that does nothing more than makes a call to AddMonitor. Here is a small snippet: MONITOR_INFO_2 m_MonitorInfo2; m_MonitorInfo2.pName = lpMonitorName; TCHAR env[12] =…
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printing html output to printer on a server application

I am writing a service on the local server side which will accept the printer name and other inputs from the UI application and print the html file to the desired network printer. it is not a desktop application. I have a processed html file which I…
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