Printing Ascii; Directly To A Port; Directly To A Generic Serial Port - Intermec 700 Series User Manual

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The 700 Series Color Mobile Computer works with the following printers from
Intermec Technologies. Contact an Intermec Representative for information
about these printers.

Printing ASCII

The following methods for printing using Pocket PC at this time is as follows:
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Directly to a Port

Printing directly to the port sends RAW data to the printer. The format of this
data depends upon your application and the printer capabilities.
You must understand the printer commands available for your specific printer.
Generally, applications just send raw ASCII text to the printer. Since you are
sending data to the printer from your application directly to the port you are in
complete control of the printers operations. This allows you to do line printing
(print one line at a time) rather than the page format printing offered by the GDI
approach. It is also much faster since data does not have to be converted from
one graphics format to the other (display to printer). Most Intermec
use Epson Escape Sequences to control print format operations.
These commands are available in documentation you receive with your printers
or from technical support. Win32 APIs are required to print directly to the port.

Directly to a Generic Serial Port

To print directly to a generic serial port printer (non-Intermec printers):
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6820 A full-page, 80-column printer.
6808 A 4-inch belt-mount printer.
781T
A 2-inch belt-mount printer with a Bluetooth compatible module
from Socket Communications.
782T A 2-inch workboard printer.
Add port drivers to print ASCII directly to the port.
Use LinePrinter ActiveX Control from the Software Developer's Kit (SDK)
— see the SDK User's Manual for more information.
Via wireless printing — see the Wireless Printing Development Guide on the
700C Software Tools CD for more information.
Use CreateFile() to open ports — COM1: can be opened on most devices.
Use WriteFile() to send data directly to the printer.
Use CloseHandle() when you are finished printing to close the port.
Printer Support
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