LPT1/LPT2

[KenP]

Hi All,
I know I'm probably dating myself, but does anyone remember those old DOS
programs that only had LPT1 & LPT2 printer port options for printer setup?
Well, I still have one those ole programs (I know I should upgrade and
probably will one day), and need to know if anyone knows how to trick the DOS
program print utility to print to an USB port? Or ???

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
K

 

[Lem]

Hi All,
I know I'm probably dating myself, but does anyone remember those old DOS
programs that only had LPT1 & LPT2 printer port options for printer setup?
Well, I still have one those ole programs (I know I should upgrade and
probably will one day), and need to know if anyone knows how to trick the DOS
program print utility to print to an USB port? Or ???

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
K

See: http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/printfromdos.htm

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[Nil]

I know I'm probably dating myself, but does anyone remember those
old DOS programs that only had LPT1 & LPT2 printer port options
for printer setup? Well, I still have one those ole programs (I
know I should upgrade and probably will one day), and need to know
if anyone knows how to trick the DOS program print utility to
print to an USB port? Or ???

I don't know if it can be done or not, but if it can't, maybe you can
print to a file and then print the file in a separate operation.

If you have a network printer available, you can map LPT1 to it - do

NET USE LPT1 \\servername\sharename

and then print to it from a DOS session - hopefully the DOS program
will see the printer port, too.

You can map a drive letter to a local share as well, so I bet you could
map to a locally shared USB printer, too. I have no way to test that
now, but you might.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Hi All,
I know I'm probably dating myself, but does anyone remember those old DOS
programs that only had LPT1 & LPT2 printer port options for printer setup?
Well, I still have one those ole programs (I know I should upgrade and
probably will one day), and need to know if anyone knows how to trick the DOS
program print utility to print to an USB port? Or ???

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
K

Create a network share for the printer (This can be done even if
your PC is the only member of its workgroup), and then use the Net Use
command to redirect the DOS output. For example:

NET USE LPT1 \\ComputerName\PrinterShareName /PERSISTENT:YES


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[M.I.5¾]

Hi All,
I know I'm probably dating myself, but does anyone remember those old DOS
programs that only had LPT1 & LPT2 printer port options for printer setup?
Well, I still have one those ole programs (I know I should upgrade and
probably will one day), and need to know if anyone knows how to trick the
DOS
program print utility to print to an USB port? Or ???

Many USB to parallel port leads come with a driver that intercepts calls to
LPTx: and redirects them to the USB/LPT lead. However, it is vital to check
before purchase because this is not universal, and problems have been
reported with some applications not working reliably with the redirected DOS
interface on some such leads.