<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >printer_open</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Manual de PHP" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Printer functions" HREF="ref.printer.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="printer_logical_fontheight" HREF="function.printer-logical-fontheight.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="printer_select_brush" HREF="function.printer-select-brush.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Manual de PHP</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.printer-logical-fontheight.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Anterior</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.printer-select-brush.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Siguiente</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.printer-open" ></A >printer_open</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN66583" ></A ><P > (no version information, might be only in CVS)</P >printer_open -- Open connection to a printer</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN66586" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >mixed <B CLASS="methodname" >printer_open</B > ( [string devicename])<BR ></BR ><P > This function tries to open a connection to the printer <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >devicename</I ></TT >, and returns a handle on success or <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT > on failure. </P ><P > If no parameter was given it tries to open a connection to the default printer (if not specified in <TT CLASS="filename" >php.ini</TT > as <TT CLASS="literal" >printer.default_printer</TT >, php tries to detect it). </P ><P > <B CLASS="function" >printer_open()</B > also starts a device context. </P ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN66602" ></A ><P ><B >Ejemplo 1. <B CLASS="function" >printer_open()</B > example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" >$handle = printer_open("HP Deskjet 930c"); $handle = printer_open();</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.printer-logical-fontheight.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Anterior</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Inicio</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.printer-select-brush.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Siguiente</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >printer_logical_fontheight</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.printer.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Subir</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >printer_select_brush</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >