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Dogers/rawprinttest.py

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  1. Dogers created this gist Dec 10, 2018.
    33 changes: 33 additions & 0 deletions rawprinttest.py
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    import win32print
    import sys
    from pathlib import Path

    # Python 3 only..
    if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
    raise Exception("Python 3 or a more recent version is required.")

    printers = win32print.EnumPrinters(4)
    printercount = 0
    for x in printers:
    print(printercount, "-", x[2])
    printercount += 1

    chosenprinter = int(input("Printer number? "))

    chosenfile = Path()
    while not chosenfile.is_file():
    filename = input("Enter PDF file path: ")
    chosenfile = Path(filename)

    myprinter = win32print.OpenPrinter(printers[chosenprinter][2])

    printjob = win32print.StartDocPrinter(
    myprinter, 1, ("Python test RAW print", None, "raw"))

    with open(chosenfile, mode='rb') as file:
    buf = file.read()

    bytesprinted = win32print.WritePrinter(myprinter, buf)

    win32print.EndDocPrinter(myprinter)
    win32print.ClosePrinter(myprinter)