>>Is there away to programatically tell if a printer is PCL (HP compatible)?
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>>TIA,
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>>Alex
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>As far as I know, there is none, at least I could not find how.
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>The only thing that came very very close was the WMI class Win32_Printer, it has several properties that allow you to determine this and other things, but unfortunatelly they return NULL, My guess is that the printers drivers do not support them yet, for they are "new" for XP. I posted a message in the past to do a test if it works for others, but as far as I know, it didn't

Perhaps you know the answer to our root problem, Hugo.

We keep reports in FpDos format in order to make them print quickly in dot matrix printers and save correctly in ascii.

The problem with that is that we have to insert control codes for smaller fonts and landscape. We did it for PCL printers thinking that all laser printers were PCL compatible... but they are not.

What do you suggest?

TIA,

Alex