Printing from Ms-Dos Windows XP Pro

[Guest]

I have an old program that needs to print to my USB Printer.
I've shared the printer using Net USE, and redirected LTP1 to the share.
When I print something it stays on the print queue, it prints nothing, and
stays on the queue forever, at least until I boot the computer.
This also happens if I print from the command line, for example: "dir >LPT1".
Can someone help me? Is there a way to solve it?

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

See Bruce Sanderson's article at:
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/printfromdos.htm

 

[Davide Guolo]

Jaime,

I have an old program that needs to print to my USB Printer.
I've shared the printer using Net USE, and redirected LTP1 to the share.

your printer may be a GDI (AKA Windows-Only) one.

You may want to have a look at Printfil to redirect your DOS jobs to any
Windows printer, including USB, GDI and virtual printers. You can find more
info and a free trial at http://www.printfil.com

Kind regards,
Davide Guolo
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