Windows Printing using win32print

[Alan Miller]

Geoffrey  Gerrietts (geoff at homegain.com) wrote:
>The original question, though, asked about printing using win32print, when
>in fact his output was not printer-ready -- it was a simple text string he
>was trying to write to the printer. Consequently, even though he's asking
>about win32print, win32print is not the most effective way to manage his
>output -- unless he speaks PostScript or HPL (isn't that what HP printers
>speak? I forget...) more fluently than he speaks Python, which I'm doubting.

Right, but any printer that I've run into (plotters are an exception) 
can take a raw ASCII data stream and print it as plain text.  Postscript 
or PCL are only needed if you want something other than fixed-width 
Courier.

ajm