I am using C# with Winforms. I am trying to print bills on a paper roll. The width of the paper is 3in but the length of the paper is dynamic (its a roll paper). The length depends on how many items are there in the list. E.g. in a purchase if there are 100 items sold then it will be quite long roll while for a single item purchased it would be of small length.
When I print the report, after the end job, printer eject the last page more than I need. It eject paper as long as A4 size. I want to print the required lines, then stop printing. I use a roll of paper, not A4 or A3 and an Epson LQ-300 + II printer.
To be more specific, printing is always done to page-sized units. If I set the page to be 3in x 8in then I always end up with a printout that is a multiple of 8in long. If I have a 9in bill to print, I end up with a 16in printout, wasting 7in of paper. How can I print with the last page being only as long as it needs to be?
Here is the code:
private void printDoc_PrintPage(Object sender, PrintPageEventArgs e)
{
Font printFont = new Font("Courier New", 12);
int y = 15;
e.Graphics.DrawString("a Line", printFont, Brushes.Black, 0, y); y = y + 20;
e.Graphics.DrawString(" Line", printFont, Brushes.Black, 0, y); y = y + 25;
e.Graphics.DrawString(" Line", printFont, Brushes.Black, 0, y); y = y + 35;
e.Graphics.DrawString(" Line", printFont, Brushes.Black, 0, y); y = y + 45;
}
Have you tried using a page that is only "one line" long?
Omit the upper and lower border, and you can print non stop.
Now add a bit (So the page can be torn off) and eject that.
Try this:
PaperSize pkCustomSize1 = new PaperSize("First custom size", 100, 200);
printDoc.DefaultPageSettings.PaperSize = pkCustomSize1
See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.printing.pagesettings.papersize.aspx