Re: [Tutor] Outputting Data to Printer

2009-11-20 Thread Alan Gauld
Ken G. beach...@insightbb.com 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

Re: [Tutor] Outputting Data to Printer

2009-11-20 Thread Ken G.
Alan Gauld wrote: Ken G. beach...@insightbb.com 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.

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 where

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 so

[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