S7-200 Freeport comms

Hi There
I need to write the current DateTime to a printer on Port0. Any quick way of doing this without having to convert BCD-to-Int and then Int-to String?

In a word - No, but the code to do the conversion shouldnt be that difficult.

Also remember to send a {CR} {LF} at the end of the string otherwise the printer will just try and print everything on one line

Thanks Mike.Found out the hard way about {CR}{LF}.
Also, when the printer specs are 40 colums wide does that mean 40 bytes?
Incidently, i am writing to a thermal printer.Unfortunately the printer is Italian make and the english in the manual makes the chinese ones look like masterpieces.