>I have a question related to the printing on dot matrix printers in text
>mode.
>Most of my reports are created and printed by ReportBuilder and it works
>fine.
>But on dot matrix printers printing in graphics mode is too slow. I have
some
>simple but long reports which in DOS application are printed very fast in
>text mode (with no graphic inside).
>How to do this in Delphi ?
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I write the data to a file and then print it with this function:

procedure PrintFile( Src: String);
var
        SrcHandle, BytesRead: Integer;
     PrnFile: TextFile;
     Buffer: array [0..128] of char;
begin
SrcHandle := FileOpen( Src, fmOpenRead or fmShareDenyNone);
if SrcHandle <= 0 then
        exit;
AssignFile( PrnFile, 'LPT1');
Rewrite( PrnFile);
repeat
     BytesRead := FileRead( SrcHandle, Buffer, 128);
     Buffer[ BytesRead] := #0;
     Write( PrnFile, StrPas( Buffer));
until BytesRead < 128;
FileClose( SrcHandle);
CloseFile( PrnFile);
end;
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You should install the "Generic / Text Only" printer driver, connect it to
your printer, and print to that driver.  It does just what you want: prints
only text, without graphics, very quickly.  You can even modify the driver
to correctly handle bold, underline and so on for your printer.