Printing Text Directly To Default Printer

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  1. naimish

    naimish New Member

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    Introduction



    This code once used, it will directly print the data of Text Box to any default selected printers.

    Adv.

    - If Printer are on any other server and properly selected, this code will work properly fine.

    Dis. Adv.

    - N/A ;)

    Background



    To Print Text Directly To Default Printer.

    Please do the follow steps.

    1. Open Visual Basic 6.0 (New Project)
    2. Add below references to it.
      • Microsoft Word 11.0 Object Library
      • Microsoft Scripting Run Time
    3. Add below Componenet to it.
      • Microsoft Common Dialog Control 6.0 (SP6)
    4. On Form1, Insert Two Textboxes and One Microsoft Common Dialog Control 6.0 (SP6)
    5. Open Code view, copy & paste below code into it. (At your own risk :p)

    The code



    Code:
    Option Explicit
    Dim FilePath As String
    '***************************************
    ' Module/Form Name : PrntForm
    '
    ' Purpose : To Print The Data
    '
    ' Author : NAIMISH
    '
    ' Date Author Description
    ' ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    ' 08/07/2009 NAIMISH PrntForm will take the data from the screen's textbox and
    ' print them by using defualt selected printer into the system.
    '*************************************************************************************************
    Public Sub PrntForm()
    	Dim objWord As Word.Application
    	Set objWord = New Word.Application
    	Dim oFile As New Scripting.FileSystemObject
    	Dim FileExists As Boolean
    	' Global Variable
    	FilePath = ""
    	' Check for File existance
    	FileExists = oFile.FileExists("C:\Temp.doc")
    	If Not FileExists = False Then
    		objWord.Documents.Add "C:\Temp.doc", , , True
    	Else
    		MsgBox "Layout file not found.", vbOKOnly, "Temp.doc File Not Found"
    		Exit Sub
    	End If
    	
    	objWord.ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("FirstName").Select
    	objWord.Selection.TypeText Text1.Text
    	objWord.ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("LastName").Select
    	objWord.Selection.TypeText Text2.Text
    	objWord.ActiveDocument.PrintOut
    	Do While objWord.BackgroundPrintingStatus > 0
    	Loop
    	Call SaveMyFile 'Get the path to save .doc file
    	'Save it
    	If Not FilePath = "" Then
    		objWord.ActiveDocument.SaveAs FilePath
    	End If
    	objWord.ActiveDocument.Close wdDoNotSaveChanges
    	objWord.Quit wdDoNotSaveChanges
    	Set objWord = Nothing
    End Sub
    
    Public Sub SaveMyFile()
    	On Error GoTo errhandler
    	 
    	CommonDialog1.CancelError = True
    	CommonDialog1.Filter = "Word Document (*.doc)|*.doc"
    	CommonDialog1.FileName = ""
    	CommonDialog1.ShowSave
    	 
    	FilePath = CommonDialog1.FileName
    	 
    	Exit Sub
    	errhandler:
    	Select Case Err
    		Case 32755 ' Dialog Cancelled
    			MsgBox "You have cancelled to save the file.", vbOKOnly, "VB 6.0"
    		Case Else
    			MsgBox "Unexpected error. Err " & Err & " : " & Error
    	End Select
    End Sub
    
    Private Sub Form_Load()
    	Call PrntForm
    End Sub
    
     
  2. Saket

    Saket New Member

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    Hi, thanks but how can I give option to choose printer to print ?
     
  3. naimish

    naimish New Member

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    :welcome: I will post another article for the same ;)
     
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    Printing Text Directly To Selected Printer - Article will be posting on this month :D May Be it will be more useful ;)
     

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