Where to find Ezprint?

Casey

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Mar 24, 2012, 9:59:48 PM3/24/12

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Hi, I am looking for a package called ezprint. I looked on the Wiki, but found the link referenced there was broken.

Can anyone send it to me, or point me to a website to download it?

Thanks!

Casey

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Mar 25, 2012, 10:15:32 AM3/25/12

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As a follow up to anyone else looking for this in the present or future. I found another similar package called Printer. This is the Michael I. Schwartz package.

You can find it here: http://www.schwartzcomputer.com/tcl-tk/tcl-tk.html#printerTbl

lb

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Mar 26, 2012, 10:04:17 PM3/26/12

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Sorry about that, ezprint was something I wrong long ago and haven't
been maintaining. (ezprint was a very simple Tcl extension that sent a
raw data stream to a Windows printer.) It was hosted on a Verizon "personal
web site", but then Verizon dropped that service (via ftp) so it went away.
Hence the broken link. If you really want it, I can dig it up and try to
build it using more up-to-date tools. (Need a place to host it, though ...
too small for sourceforge etc.)

Please understand that it did RAW streams. You would have to 1) know what
language your printer supports, e.g. PostScript, and 2) generate that
language in your Tcl application. It worked for me, for simple reporting to
a known class of printers. But I don't think it was that useful in general.

Casey

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Mar 28, 2012, 10:21:42 PM3/28/12

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On Monday, March 26, 2012 7:04:17 PM UTC-7, lb wrote:

Thank you very much for the reply. I'm in the middle of writing software to write to a receipt/POS printer, so raw data is very much important to me. However, as previously stated I believe the other package that I found will work for my needs. So, I don't think it would warrant you going to so much trouble.

Thank you, again for the response.

- Casey

Harald Oehlmann

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Mar 29, 2012, 2:52:50 AM3/29/12

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> Thank you very much for the reply. I'm in the middle of writing software to write to a receipt/POS printer, so raw data is very much important to me. However, as previously stated I believe the other package that I found will work for my needs. So, I don't think it would warrant you going to so much trouble.

Hi folks,

a demand for raw printing just dropped on my desk.
I would be interested in your results.

Thank you,
Harald

blacksqr

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Mar 30, 2012, 12:32:09 AM3/30/12

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According to the wiki, the Windows installer of the Tcl-NAP package
includes a copy of ezprint.

Harald Oehlmann

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Mar 30, 2012, 3:05:19 AM3/30/12

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On 30 Mrz., 06:32, blacksqr <stephen.hunt...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> According to the wiki, the Windows installer of the Tcl-NAP package
> includes a copy of ezprint.

Thank you.
Unfortunately it core dumps if I call any method, load still passes...
-Harald

mse...@gmail.com

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Apr 3, 2012, 11:06:22 AM4/3/12

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Hi Harald,

I thought BLT has some things for Printing under windows. There was also a windows only GDI printing system for TCL that I looked into once.

What I do now is use pdf4tcl and a set of higher level routines to produce a pdf then open a pdf viewer directly.

This works on a lot more platforms and can allow archiving and printing easily.

Martyn