Printing in the Windows environmentMost applications provide a way for users to get printed copies of their program data. In most environments, your application must deal with the varied capabilities and requirements of many different printers. In Microsoft Windows, your application need not provide any printer-specific code; it can simply print to the current printer. Windows, and the Windows printer drivers, translate your application's print request to information each printer can use.
This chapter covers the following topics:
Printing in the Windows environment
Getting information about the printer
Printing a line of text
Printing a bitmap
Processing printing errors
Canceling print operations
Using banding to print graphics images
This chapter also explains how to create a sample application, PrntFile, that
illustrates many of the concepts explained in the chapter.