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    copied!<p>So, I need to print to a laser printer from a windows form application (c#, .net 4) and I've discovered the super "interesting" PrintDocument class and now have code that works, but it looks like this:</p> <pre><code>private void PrintCollate(vws.custom.production.IndiPackLabel ipl) { var pd = new PrintDocument(); pd.DocumentName = "Collate"; var printerSettings = new System.Drawing.Printing.PrinterSettings(); printerSettings.PrinterName = "HP LaserJet 4100"; pd.PrinterSettings = printerSettings; pd.PrinterSettings.Copies = 1; _currCollate = ipl; pd.PrintPage += new PrintPageEventHandler(pd_PrintPage); pd.Print(); _currCollate = null; } private static vws.custom.production.IndiPackLabel _currCollate; public void pd_PrintPage(Object sender, System.Drawing.Printing.PrintPageEventArgs e) { float linesPerPage = 0; //int count = 0; float leftMargin = 20; float topMargin = 20; float yPos = topMargin; var printFontNormal = new System.Drawing.Font("consolas", 10); var printFontNormalBold = new System.Drawing.Font("consolas", 10, FontStyle.Bold); float stdFontHeight = printFontNormal.GetHeight(e.Graphics); var printFontSmall = new System.Drawing.Font("consolas", 8); float smallFontHeight = printFontSmall.GetHeight(e.Graphics); linesPerPage = e.MarginBounds.Height / stdFontHeight; e.Graphics.DrawString(("Order: " + _currCollate.OrderDescription).PadRight(91) + "ORD #:" + _currCollate.OrderNumber, printFontNormal, Brushes.Black, leftMargin, yPos); yPos += stdFontHeight; string customerInfo = (_currCollate.Customer.FirstName + " " + _currCollate.Customer.LastName).PadRight(90) + " BAG #" + _currCollate.BagNumber; e.Graphics.DrawString(customerInfo, printFontNormal, Brushes.Black, leftMargin, yPos); yPos += stdFontHeight; yPos += stdFontHeight; string header = "ITEMNO".PadRight(20) + "ITEM NAME".PadRight(70) + "QTY".PadRight(3); e.Graphics.DrawString(header, printFontNormalBold, Brushes.Black, leftMargin, yPos); int itemTotal = 0; foreach (var item in _currCollate.OrderItems) { yPos += stdFontHeight; string itemLine = item.ItemNo.PadRight(20) + (item.ItemName + " " + item.OptionNames).PadRight(70) + item.Qty.ToString().PadRight(3); e.Graphics.DrawString(itemLine, printFontNormal, Brushes.Black, leftMargin, yPos); if (item.Notes.Length &gt; 0) { yPos += stdFontHeight; string notesLine = string.Empty.PadRight(20) + item.Notes; e.Graphics.DrawString(notesLine, printFontNormal, Brushes.Black, leftMargin, yPos); } itemTotal += item.Qty; } yPos += stdFontHeight; string footer = "TOTAL ITEMS: ".PadRight(90) + itemTotal; e.Graphics.DrawString(footer, printFontNormal, Brushes.Black, leftMargin, yPos); e.Graphics.DrawRectangle(new Pen(Color.Black, 2), new Rectangle(20,600,700,500)); } </code></pre> <p>There has to be a better way. Especially when I have to change this in 6 months and have to re-figure this out.</p> <p>I am using Neodynamic's thermal label SDK (http://www.neodynamic.com/ND/ProductsPage.aspx?tabid=107&amp;prod=thermallabel) for printing to Zebra printers and am hoping for a similar API for creating a print document for a laser printer. I'll also need to add bar-code printing to this print document as well, so any tools that include bar-code functionality would be even more helpful. </p> <p>Any suggestions?</p>
 

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