Send Text output to Printer
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Hi all:
I am having difficulty with sending a text output to a print from the MATLAB framework. I tried using the command line "!print" but it won't work in selecting the user computer's default printing option. The print command in MATLAB apparently only supports figures. Additionally, it would be better served if I could access the printing GUI. Primarily this will be running on Windows 7 machines. I would greatly appreciate any assistance.
Cheers,
Jesse
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Walter Roberson
2011-9-14
What happens if you copy the text output to the MS Windows printer device, LPT1: ?
fid = fopen('LPT1:', 'wt');
fprintf(fid, 'Line 1\nLine 2\nLine 3\n');
fclose(fid)
I would, though, caution that these days not many desktop printers seem to accept plain text files and just print them out: if they can accept plain text files at all, they usually expect the text file to contain HPGL or else Postscript. The less expensive desktop printers usually expect binary files in some internal binary language.
So usually, these days, you do not want to send a text file to a printer: usually you want to send the text file to a printer driver that takes care of encoding the text however is needed for that particular model of printer. I am not sure if I ever knew how to send something to the MS Windows printer drivers from a program, though; if I did, I do not recall the method now.
Jan
2011-9-14
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There is a generic text printer driver for Windows, see e.g. http://support.mfm.com/support/std_procedures/xpgenericprinter.html.
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Walter Roberson
2011-9-14
This appears to be the opposite of what is desired. The poster is trying to send text to a real printer to have it printed, whereas the driver referenced here is for printing to a file instead of a real printer.
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