Merlin’s Delphi Forge

You shouldn’t have too much problem opening a Delphi 4 form in Delphi 2 but you won’t have luck opening a 32 bit or C++ Builder form in Delphi 1. The only way is to save the file in text form. Delphi 5 can do this automatically but in all the previous versions you have [...]

This is the harder way to print text in Delphi If you want to do it the easier way check out tip 4.1. Well, if for some reasons you may want to print using the Windows API here’s the code:
Code 1:

uses
Printers, WinSpool;
…
var
aDriver, aPort, aPrinterName: array[0..255] of Char; { aDriver and [...]