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How to tell if a printer is dot matrix
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02/02/2004 19:40:29
 
 
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02/02/2004 19:34:21
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00873166
Message ID:
00873210
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>>Is there a way I can tell programmatically from VFP if a particular printer is dot matrix or not?
>
>I don't think so.
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>IIRC under Win9x all dot matrix printers used UNIDRV.DLL as one of their drivers. But, this may not hold true if a printer is using a vendor-supplied driver, is running in graphics mode, or is on NT/W2K/WXP.
>
>I can't think of anything reliable you might use.

Too bad. I hope someone is able to come up with some trick.

Thanks,

Alex
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