Re: [Tutor] Outputting Data to Printer

2009-11-20 Thread Ken G.
ALAN GAULD wrote: > > There is no universal easy way to print stuff unfortunately. > > In console mode on Unix its not too bad, you can send data > > to lpr, just as you would from the shell. > That is a surprise! I was so use to using lprint as in Basic. BASIC ran on a predefined platform

Re: [Tutor] Outputting Data to Printer

2009-11-20 Thread ALAN GAULD
> > There is no universal easy way to print stuff unfortunately. > > In console mode on Unix its not too bad, you can send data > > to lpr, just as you would from the shell. > That is a surprise! I was so use to using lprint as in Basic. BASIC ran on a predefined platform so could be sure w

Re: [Tutor] Outputting Data to Printer

2009-11-20 Thread Ken G.
Alan Gauld wrote: "Ken G." wrote Is there a Python command to send data to printer? I have a Canon MX300 hooked up by USB. I can print from Firefox and Thunderbird. I am using Ubuntu 9.04 and Python 2.6.2. There is no universal easy way to print stuff unfortunately. In console mode on Un

Re: [Tutor] Outputting Data to Printer

2009-11-20 Thread Alan Gauld
"Ken G." wrote Is there a Python command to send data to printer? I have a Canon MX300 hooked up by USB. I can print from Firefox and Thunderbird. I am using Ubuntu 9.04 and Python 2.6.2. There is no universal easy way to print stuff unfortunately. In console mode on Unix its not too bad

[Tutor] Outputting Data to Printer

2009-11-19 Thread Ken G.
Is there a Python command to send data to printer? I have a Canon MX300 hooked up by USB. I can print from Firefox and Thunderbird. I am using Ubuntu 9.04 and Python 2.6.2. I could print to a file and then use gedit to print out the content of the file but I was wondering if there was an e