Board index » delphi » choosing printer in app and printing labels

2003-10-07 08:36:51 PM
delphi36
Hi there,
I am using the printers class to print labels. With printers.enddoc the
labels are always printed on the standard printer. Is there a possibility to
choose internally from the list of available printers? Maybe by their name??
I need to print out a random number of labels. These labels should be
printed on endless paper where in each row you have four labels. Till now I
am printing two lines on each label by telling the dots for each textline,
which is - I know - stupid. Is there a way to do that in a loop or
something?
Thanks,
Pascal
 

the globale printer variable is set to the selected printer (with the
selected options).
I'd look in the source of the Printer-Setup dialog to get the
information you want.
the printer. The information on the size's is provided with the labels.
With all this information you could calculate the necessary
distances/offsets and sizes and print them in a loop.
The height of textlines could also be obtained by the printers canvas.