DOS printing in W2K Prof

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Dear Experts,

I installed HPDJ 5150 USB printer to my Windows 2000 Prof. computer. Now I
am not able to print anything in DOS applications.
Please help.
Thanks.
Athar
 
Command line

NET USE LPT1 \\computername\printername

direct any "dos app" printing to LPT1
 
I had the same problem and a very inexpensive shareware utility
DOSprn176.exe, I think it was $14.00 to register, did the trick.

Mike
 
Or you can "Share" the printer, then use

net use LPT1 \\computername\printername

to point LPT1 at it and save the 14 bucks.
 
Mike S said:
I had the same problem and a very inexpensive shareware utility
DOSprn176.exe, I think it was $14.00 to register, did the trick.

Mike
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Did you try to
a) share the Windows printer queue
b) connect to the queue in DOS
net use lpt2: \\localhost\printername
c) configure the DOS app to print using LPT2 and
the proper printer control language.

But anyway... you SHOULD try to stop using DOS programs soon!

- Sten
 
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