You can send the page directly to the printer by selecting the Print button, or you can save the page to a file for printing later. If you don't need the printed page immediately, saving it to a file can save time by deferring the actual printing part of the print operation until a later time. Saving the page as a print file is also a convenient way to generate multiple copies of the same image off-line.
If you have several of these files to print, you can create a batch file that will print all of them. In this example, assume that you have three print files that were saved with the filenames pix1.prn, pix2.prn, and pix3.prn. The next step is to create and edit a file named
print.bat. This file must be named
print.bat and must be located in the same directory as the print files.
The text of the print.bat file simply lists the print command and the print file names as follows (you can use Windows™ Notepad to create this text file). Be sure to press
Enter after the last line so that the program can execute is as a command.
copy /b pix1.prn prn
copy /b pix2.prn prn
copy /b pix2.prn prn
copy /b pix3.prn prn
After creation of this file, go to the DOS prompt and to the directory where the print files and
print.bat are stored. Type the command print and one at a time, the pages will be printed on your printer.
Print files are quite large and can take up a lot of disk space, so you need to be diligent in deleting these files after you print them.