Ezprint is a Tcl extension for simplified Windows printing. 
It allows a Tcl application running on a Windows NT/2000/XP system to send raw data 
to a local or network-connected printer. It uses Tcl channel routines to define
a new type of channel for printing.

To clarify: '''Ezprint does no data conversion'''.  
It just transports raw data to your printer.  
The data goes via a Windows installed printer driver, but in '''RAW''' mode, 
so the driver does no data conversion either.  
It is up to your application to generate data which is compatible with your printer.  
If you need data conversion - for example, an application generates PostScript 
but you need it to go to some random ink-jet printer - 
you probably won't find Ezprint useful.

Ezprint is distributed under an open source license, 
and comes with source code and a Borland-built DLL.  

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Ezprint used to be hosted on my personal web page, but I changed ISPs in 2008 and have not found a new place to host the downloads. I do have DLLs built for Tcl8.4 and Tcl8.5 and hope to make them available as soon as I can find a home for them. -ljb

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Here are some example code fragments, which assume you've already
loaded the extension.

Make an option menu list of all available printers, 
with the user's default printer selected:

    global selected_printer
    ...
    set selected_printer [ezprint defaultprinter]
    eval tk_optionMenu $widgetname selected_printer [ezprint listprinters]
    ...

# Send a file "report.pcl" to the default printer:

    set f [open report.pcl]
    fconfigure $f -translation binary
    set p [ezprint open [ezprint defaultprinter]]
    fconfigure $p -translation binary
    puts -nonewline $p [read $f]
    close $p
    close $f


# Send a canvas $canvas as PostScript to a printer:

    set pr [ezprint open $printername]
    $canvas postscript -channel $pr
    close $pr

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Although ezprint is generally not [stubs]-enabled, [Jeff Godfrey]
has touched up a version to make it so.    [[more refs]]
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