OT: WinXP Raw Printing?

[Fairlight]

On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 01:12:30PM -0400, Kenneth Brody may or may not have
proven themselves an utter git by pronouncing:
> Fairlight wrote:
> > 
> > Okay, decidedly OT, but maybe some of the 'Doze folks have ideas...
> > 
> > Basically, I have a need a way to print directly to a WinXP (Home Edition,
> > if it matters) printer, but -without- any sort of print driver in the
> > middle to interpret/filter anything.
> > 
> > The default text driver was tried, and it strips all print codes out of the
> > file.  We basically have something already formatted--we just need to send
> > it out to the printer raw without any kind of interpretive driver in the
> > middle.
> 
> What program are you printing from?  (Note that this is exactly how filePro
> prints when using the "win:printername" destination syntax.)

You know, it's actually in fP, but it's kind of weird.  It's in a system
where he's doing remote things to a printer on a parallel port on an XP
system but the fP is actually run through Multiview from a SCO box.  It's
fP all GUIfied and touchscreen for kiosk work.  I've seen this done before,
and it's pretty snazzy--leave fP's screens alone internally and just "mark
up" the screen for use through the browser.  It's slick for "that sorta
thing".

I was thinking someone else's private suggestion might work in SYSTEM, but
I just realised that the fP isn't local to XP.  Doh.  However, there may be
an equivalent to use.  Not sure yet.  This assumes that "lpt1:" is taken as
a "special" destination file from anywhere though, not just the Windows
command prompt.  And I don't know much (read: no more than the regular
end-user) about the Windows print spooling system or its hooks.

mark->
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