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This third part will show how to send the marked-up invoice to a printer.
In this example we use a PCL5 HP LaserJet 4000 printer that is shared
on our network as “HPLaserjet4000”. To do this we must pass
ICS commands that define the printer we are sending the file to, and pass
a plot command when we want to print.
1) Define a Printer
When defining a printer we must keep in mind that we are adding markup
to the file. Because of this we can not use DIRECT as the output
method, this would pass the file to the printer without the added markup.
To define a printer we will use the “printer number” command on page
21 of the ICS Reference
Manual:
printer number 12 type
HPLJ3_ORIGINAL command none alias HPLaserjet4000
This command defines printer number 12 to output PCL5 to the Windows
Printer “HPLaserjet4000”. If the printer name has any spaces then
it will need to be in quotes.
2) Pass a Plot command
Once we are ready to print we will need to pass the command to send
the file to our defined printer:
plot 12 all
This will send all of the file to the printer defined as 12. If
we only wanted to print a portion of the document we could use a page range
such as 1-4 or 1,4,6,10 instead of all.
3) Combine Markup and Print commands
Now let’s pass all of the markup commands and the print commands at
once on the command line, and send the file to the printer:
sview –c”printer number
12 type HPLJ3_ORIGINAL command none alias HPLaserjet4000| ldoc c:\invoice.pcl|
onpage 1,4,6,10 markup load filename c:\logo.jpg rxloc 3.5 ryloc .25| plot
12 all”
The final result is the file being sent to the printer with the added
logo on the first page of each document.
It is important at this time to realize there are a number of ways to
pass ICS commands other than via the command line. For this example
I would actually suggest creating a file the contains multiple ICS commands,
called an ICS file. Create a file markup.ics and have it contain:
ICS
printer number 12 type
HPLJ3_ORIGINAL command none alias HPLaserjet4000
ldoc c:\invoice.pcl
onpage 1,4,6,10 markup
load filename c:\logo.jpg rxloc 3.5 ryloc .25| plot 12 all
This file contains all of the commands we passed on the command line
a moment ago. To have this file run, simply open the file with SwiftConvert:
sview –c”ldoc markup.ics”
The result should be the same as when all the commands were passed on
the command line. This type of functionality allows you to write
out all of the necessary commands before you create your command line string.
If you have any questions on any of these example please contact tech@swiftview.com.
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