title: Printing to Dot Matrix printers from Web Apps
body: <p>I am not familiar with Dot Matrix printers but I have a customer with a WebApp that generates invoices, print checks, etc.. Currently they are printing directly from the server, meaning that the printer must be connected to the server or that the server needs a way to connect to the remote printer. As you can imagine this generates a lot of problems.</p>
  
  <p>My first reaction was, generate a pdf doc. on the server and send it to the client so they can print it on whichever printer they have access to. But it turns out that many of his customers use dot matrix printers which do not support printing of PDF.</p>
  
  <p>My question, is there any file format that all dot matrix printers can read? HTML, ASCII, etc...
  My customer insists that the only way to go is to have the server print directly from php which seems extremely odd to me.</p>
  
  <p>Thank you in advance!</p>