public bool SendToPrinter(string printerName)
{
var success = true;
foreach (var page in Pages)
{
success = RawPrinterHelper.SendManagedBytesToPrinter(printerName, page);
if (!success)
{
break;
}
}
return(success);
}
static private void Print(PackageComponent PrintComponent, string guid)
{
//nugget: sending raw ESCape codes to dot matrix printer (Epson's "ESC/P" standard)
//nugget: ESC/P reference manual: http://files.support.epson.com/pdf/general/escp2ref.pdf
//ESC @ = reset
//ESC x n = quality: 0 = Draft, 1 = NLQ
//ESC k n = font: 0 = Roman, 1 = Sans serif font
//ESC M = 12 cpi
//reinitialize the page every time by filling the array with spaces plus a line feed at the end of every line...
Buffer.BlockCopy(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(pageinit), 0, pagebytes, 0, pageinit.Length);
// "flattening a 2D array": http://www.dotnetperls.com/flatten-array
// logicalrow = row * pagewidth
byte[] rowbytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(new string(' ', pagewidth));
rowbytes[pagewidth - 1] = 0x0A; // linefeed (LF)
pagebytes[pagebytes.Length - 1] = 0x0C; // form feed (FF)
//apparently simple for-loop is the recommended best practice for this drudgery
//http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1897555/what-is-the-equivalent-of-memset-in-c
//http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6150097/initialize-a-byte-array-to-a-certain-value-other-than-the-default-null
for (int row = 0; row < pageheight; row++)
{
PrintBytesAtPos(rowbytes, 0, row);
}
PrintStringAtPos(String.Format("{0}{0}{0}{0}{0}{0}{0}{0}{0}123456", "1234567890"), 0, 0);
PrintStringAtPos(String.Format("2 1{0}2{0}3{0}4{0}5{0}6{0}7{0}8{0}9", " "), 0, 1);
for (int row = 2; row < pageheight; row++)
{
//we need to leave FormField data definition 0-based to be consistent with v1...
//but want to view in 1-based on the hardcopy
PrintStringAtPos((row + 1).ToString(), 0, row);
}
RawPrinterHelper.SendManagedBytesToPrinter(Setting.Local["POPrinter"], pagebytes);
return;
using (Proc TaxForm_print = new Proc("TaxForm_print"))
{
TaxForm_print["@TaxFormGUID"] = guid; //for testprint, pass Guid.Empty i.e. '00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000'
TaxForm_print["@PrintComponent"] = (int)PrintComponent;
TaxForm_print.ExecuteDataSet();
Printer POPrinter = InitDotMatrix(Setting.Local["POPrinter"]); //coding defensively, reset printer settings with every print... so agents can readily power cycle the printer with no ramifications, etc.
Printer AbwPrinter = ((Setting.Local["POPrinter"] == Setting.Local["AbwPrinter"])) ? POPrinter : InitDotMatrix(Setting.Local["AbwPrinter"]); //don't re-init the same printer
if (guid == Guid.Empty.ToString()) //test mode...
{
SetCurrentXY(POPrinter, 0, 0);
POPrinter.Write(String.Format("{0}{0}{0}{0}{0}{0}{0}{0}{0}123456", "1234567890"));
SetCurrentXY(POPrinter, 0, 1);
POPrinter.Write(String.Format("2 1{0}2{0}3{0}4{0}5{0}6{0}7{0}8{0}9", " "));
for (int i = 2; i <= 63; i++)
{
//we need to leave FormField data definition 0-based to be consistent with v1...
SetCurrentXY(POPrinter, 0, i);
//but want to view in 1-based on the hardcopy
POPrinter.Write((i + 1).ToString());
}
}
PrintFields(POPrinter, TaxForm_print.dataSet.Tables[0].Rows);
PrintFields(AbwPrinter, TaxForm_print.dataSet.Tables[1].Rows);
}
}
