>hello everybody.

>has anyone found a way to determine if a printer is a Dot-Matrix printer? as >far as i know, there is no direct way. i was thinking this might be possible >by checking for the lack of or the existense of a printer capability or >simular.

>any ideas?

I've been studying the possibility of the use of PRTINFO().
PRTINFO(11) returns printer's vertical resolution, and for what I know the max resolution on most dot matrix printers is below 200 while all other printers are above 300.