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Message: [QUOTE="filbertumbawa15, post: 230381, member: 27558"] [HEADING=2]The Question[/HEADING] [B]Scenario:[/B] I have a web-based application (like an inventory system or a point-of-sale) that generates invoices and reports as HTML pages. I need to print these onto multi-part carbon copy paper using our reliable old Epson LQ-2180 dot-matrix printer. [B]The Problem:[/B] Printing directly from the browser (e.g., Chrome's Ctrl+P) is problematic: [LIST=1] [*][B]It's slow:[/B] The browser tries to render the full graphical page, which is very slow on a dot-matrix printer. [*][B]It looks wrong:[/B] Fonts, layouts, and margins don't translate well. The output is often garbled or poorly aligned. [*][B]It's wasteful:[/B] It uses a lot of ribbon trying to print graphics and rich formatting. [/LIST] I don't want the graphics, colors, or fancy CSS layouts. I just want the core text content (headings, paragraphs, and especially data from tables) printed in the printer's native, fast "Text Mode" or "Draft Mode". If I save the HTML file and try to send it to the printer from the command line, it just prints all the raw HTML tags like <h1>, <table>, <td>, etc. [B]The Goal:[/B] How can I take a URL, extract its meaningful text content, and send it directly to an LQ-2180 printer in raw text mode, bypassing the graphical print driver? [/QUOTE]