Printing on continuous paper without page breaks

Hi. If you have a setup like a thermal roll printer or old tractor printer and don’t want to use page breaks at all, how do you setup Write to use it?

I have a 58mm thermal printer and want to write text and then print. I don’t want to print useless whitespace on a “virtual” page break. And I want the print to stop at the end of the text. If I set a page height to a high value in order to not have page breaks, I instead get long feeds of blank paper at the end of the print. I want the print to stop at the last line.

I’ve tried the “label” feature, but it also have a height. There is a radiobutton under “New->Label” for “continuous” but it doesn’t seem to do much and I still have to enter some page height in the “Format” tab. If I set the height to zero, I can’t see the text on the screen. I don’t understand this feature and much rather use the ordinary document format for setting up margins and such.

Page “height” is simply not a property that makes sense in a continuous paper application, such as a modern thermal printer or old-school tractor feed printer (dot matrix or line printer and others).

Maybe this third party page has the solution, drivers - Print on continuous paper roll - Super User

The Generic / Text Only printer mentioned can still be installed in Windows 11 24H3 by following these Windows 7 instructions, https://sps-support.honeywell.com/s/article/How-to-add-a-printer-with-a-Generic-Text-Only-driver-in-Windows

I have not tested except to install the Generic / Text Only driver

Thanks for the tips. Maybe I should have mentioned that I’m using Debian linux. I kind of forget that Windows still exists and sine I’m FOSS-oriented it never crossed my mind that Win users use LibreOffice.

The printer driver I’m using is a PPD from the manufacturer of the POS58 thermal printer (mine has the name MPT-II).

So maybe this page is still relevant, printing - Where did the Generic Text-only printer driver go? - Ask Ubuntu