Microsoft® Visual Basic® .NET Programmer's Cookbook

Print a Simple Document

Problem

You need to print text or images.

Solution

Handle the PrintDocument.PrintPage event, and use the DrawString and DrawImage methods of the Graphics class to print data to the page.

Discussion

.NET uses an asynchronous event-based printing model. To print a document, you create a System.Drawing.Printing.PrintDocument instance, configure its properties, and then call its Print method, which schedules the print job. The common language runtime will then fire the BeginPrint, PrintPage, and EndPrint events of the PrintDocument class on a new thread. You handle these events and use the provided System.Drawing.Graphics object to output data to the page.

Printer settings are configured through the PrintDocument.PrinterSettings ...