Never mind. I found a spectrum image** on the web, copied it to a file,
cropped out the black parts, and unless there is no way to specify a
file to be printed, I can print it.

**Under color test page epson and t hat yielded
www.inkguides.com/page-print-test.asp

Thanks a lot.



In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 07 Mar 2017 16:48:41 -0600, Char
Jackson wrote:

On Tue, 07 Mar 2017 17:14:31 -0500, micky
wrote:

Is there a command line that would print one picture from my files using
an Epson printer?
a Brother printer?

I should have thought of this earlier, but I need something to keep the
ink jet printers from drying out while I'm gone. Isn't 11 weeks enough
time to do that?

I thought I'd make a bat file that would run once a month that would
print, I guess, the same photo each time, but it's only 2 copies.

TIA

I recently did this for a friend. I created a basic task in Task
Scheduler, set it to run every Monday morning at 10:00 AM, and entered
this command string:

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /k /n "EPSON Stylus Photo R220 Series"

Where, obviously, her printer name is "EPSON Stylus Photo R220 Series"

You can test it by running it from a cmd prompt, inserting your printer
instead of her Epson.

In fact, just run "rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /?" from a cmd
prompt to get a pop-up window with all of the possible command line
switches. You'll see what /k and /n really mean.

The full command prints a standard printer test page rather than an
image or other document. As for the frequency of the print, that's what
she wanted. I think weekly might be too often. The standard test page
doesn't use a whole lot of ink, especially colored ink, so I thought it
would be a good choice. Plus, that 'document' is always available and
can't be deleted since it's built in, so there's some safety there.