<Yourik@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> We are trying to convert an image into a PCL format but unfortanately our
> efforts are not paying off. The reason for this conversion is because we
> would like to print on a continuous paper (on dot matrix printers) but
> if we
> send the data directly the printer does not recognize the end of the page
> (since the page is continuous) and will still eject the paper after the
> print
> is done.

"Peter Duniho" wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:30:01 -0700, Yourik
> <Yourik@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> > We are trying to convert an image into a PCL format but unfortanately our
> > efforts are not paying off. The reason for this conversion is because we
> > would like to print on a continuous paper (on dot matrix printers) but
> > if we
> > send the data directly the printer does not recognize the end of the page
> > (since the page is continuous) and will still eject the paper after the
> > print
> > is done.
>
> It's been awhile, but my recollection from when I did a lot of work with
> printing code is that for continuous feed printers, there is still an
> upper limit to how large an image you can print (because the whole
> printout needs to be within the limits of the coordinate system), and the
> printer will still do a final page eject when you reach the end of the
> job, regardless of how the job is sent to the printer.
>
> I'm not really clear on why you believe that sending the job to the
> printer as raw PCL instead of going through the Graphics class will
> improve the situation, but if you feel that it should, I'm fairly
> confident that this newsgroup is not the best place to look for the
> answer. This newsgroup is for .NET Framework programming problems, and
> I'm pretty sure that you're not going to find the solution to your issue
> in the .NET Framework.
>
> Pete