Re: Printing to only USB printer

I have some dock workers who will use this utility to print labels with
shipment identification numbers on them and stick them on boxes for a
special project we are doing here at my Transportation company.

The users have other printers installed. They have a parallel LPT1 and
several TCPIP networked printers. When I plug the USB Zebra printer into
the PC I only want this application to print to it regardless of what
printer is set as default and I don't want the user to have an option or
choice of printers to use. I want it to be as user-friendly as possible in
the fast paced warehouse environment.

PS. Could you tell me more about this .ini file?

Thanks,

Shannon


"Mike Williams" <Mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "J French" <erewhon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Personally I would show a 'non-standard' dialog - also that
>> would only be on request as the 'current selection' would
>> be tucked away in an INI file
>
> Yes. I agree that in many circumstances a 'non standard' dialog might be
> better than a standard CommonDialog, for a variety of reasons. I also
> agree that there are circumstances when it is not wise to show a dialog at
> all (for example a program you might write to be used by a child of an age
> that would mean he might become confused by a printer dialog, or perhaps a
> program that is required to run unattended and print reports from time to
> time). Also, under such circumstances keeping the 'current selection' in
> an in file is often also a good idea. For general purpose stuff though
> (such as word processors, desktop publishers, drawing programs and
> standard stuff like that) there is nothing to beat a full blown printer
> dialog. In fact for some purposes that is the only way you can give the
> user access to certain printer settings. Some things are virtually
> impossible for the user to get at in any other way. As far as I recall
> though the OP hasn't actually stated who will use his program, or under
> what circumstances, so its a little hard to make a definite recommendation
> in his case.
>
> Mike
>
>
>


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