.NET Compact Framework Programming with Visual Basic .NET

Chapter 17. Printing

This chapter describes a model for printing called the printing pipeline and presents four approaches to printing from a .NET Compact Framework program.

Adecades-old belief is that paper output will eventually be eliminated through the use of computers. Sometimes referred to as the paperless office, the idea returns whenever a new use of computers gains widespread acceptance. In the 1980s, the impetus was the rise of personal computers with word processing software. In the 1990s, the widespread use of e-mail and of the World Wide Web triggered predictions about the demise of paper output. We believe the elimination of paper output will never happen because we see the opposite taking place: Instead of reducing it, computer use ...