Printing to USB on Vista from DOS?

[Guest]

I desperately need to print from my Dos-program to a printer that is
connected with USB.

Seems like the "net use lpt1 \\computername\printername" in Vista does not
work at all! My Dos-program just gets a fatal error when trying to print.
Tried various programs like dosprn, but none seems to work on Vista.

My setup is as follows: 2 computers connected trough a router. 1 printer,
connected with USB to one of the computers. The printer is shared, so that
both computers can use it.

What to do? Go back to XP?

 

[Davide Guolo]

Seems like the "net use lpt1 \\computername\printername" in Vista does not
work at all! My Dos-program just gets a fatal error when trying to print.
Tried various programs likedosprn, but none seems to work on Vista.

you may want to have a look at Printfil: http://www.printfil.com

For any problem you may have on your Vista machine with Printfil,
please contact us directly: http://www.printfil.com/esupp.htm

Regards,
Davide Guolo
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[Alan Morris [MSFT]]

Bruce has good solutions

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

DOS in XP (as well as Vista) does not support direct USB printing.




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Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
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[Jonne70]

Thank you both for your replies.

I now understand why I could no longer print from DOS: the Brother printer
driver supplied by Windows Vista is a Winprinter driver only, with crappy
dpi as
well.

So I will have to wait for a high-quality driver from Brother that supports
pcl5/6, because the net use trick cannot work with a winprinter.

I tried Printfil, but so far no luck, it doesn't seem to work with Vista.
Maybe their support will be able to help me.

Bruce has good solutions

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

DOS in XP (as well as Vista) does not support direct USB printing.




--
Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowto

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.

I desperately need to print from my Dos-program to a printer that is
connected with USB.

Seems like the "net use lpt1 \\computername\printername" in Vista does
not
work at all! My Dos-program just gets a fatal error when trying to print.
Tried various programs like dosprn, but none seems to work on Vista.

My setup is as follows: 2 computers connected trough a router. 1 printer,
connected with USB to one of the computers. The printer is shared, so
that
both computers can use it.

What to do? Go back to XP?

 

[Davide Guolo]

I tried Printfil, but so far no luck, it doesn't seem to work with Vista.
Maybe their support will be able to help me.

yes, it works. Please see http://www.printfil.com/efaq11.htm and
http://www.printfil.com/efaq14.htm

If you still have troubles, we are here to help you.

Regards,
Davide Guolo
aSwIt s.r.l.
--------------------------------------------------------------
Printfil - Windows Printing System for Applications
http://www.printfil.com
Odbc4All - Connection to ODBC Data Sources for any Application
http://www.aSwIt.com/odbc4all
@Kill - Batch Close Windows Applications - Freeware
http://www.aSwIt.com/akill
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