I use an DOS version program. The printer codes are set for a pin printer. What are the codes for a ink jet?

Question

The ink jet printer in question is a canon pixma 3000.
The print out is set on 8 1/2" X 11" paper. If additional information is required, please contact me.

Answer 1

>>>I, too, am using an old DOS program. In order to extract the information I want and print various reports, I save a copy of the DOS file as CSV (comma separated value).
>>>then open a new Excel file and with File, Open, filename.txt, the entire CSV file is read in. I insert a line above Row 1 to enter headings. Then save as an Excel file.
>>>From the Excel file, we "hide" the columns we do not want to print, and "unhide" when finished.
>>>We need this 20 year old program until the new program (in progress) has all the bugs worked out. At this time this is the only workaround we have come up with -- and, in Excel, no problem with page setup.

Answer 2

Most printer drivers these days don't support DOS emulation, so you can't use the dot-matrix printer 'escape' codes. Also, those escape codes were printer manufacturer-specific. Aside from Enter & Linefeed, I think the only other non-escape formatting character that you can embed in a DOS ASCII file is the page break character (ASCII code 12 decimal).

Here's a program that allows you to print (with escape codes) from a DOS application.
http://www.dosprint.com/products.htm

Answer 3

I've had success just choosing an IBM or Epson default dot-matrix printer from the program's existing printer options.