Lprinting printer control codes?

[arnoldhf]

QB4.5 made it easy from within the programme and PCL and HPGL are hardly complex; Arnoldhf above had thousands of LPRINT lines using Escape codes.

With the greatest respect you still haven't answered my question - is it not implemented  because it is technically impossible or because it just hasn't been done?

Whether it's the QB64 team or Microsoft, etc. we are all the mercy of the platform developers as to what can and perhaps can't be done.

I was able to easily, albeit reluctantly   , change all my Lprint to Print #ff lines with a program wide search and replace ALL. Similar with Lprint chr$(12). One issue I would have the TCP/IP route suggested is that it  would be embedded in the code and would require changing the code itself if the printer IP changes. At least with the way I finally did it, all I had to do was, before running the program,  redirect LPT1 to whatever printer I wanted using a DOS command e.g NET USE LPT1: \\computername\printername /persistent.