Virtual LPT1 to USB

[Maurice]

A client has a new notebook with no parallel port but has a legacy dos app
that will only print to LPT1: There are no options for modifying the print
parameters and the developer has long since disappeared.

Is there anyway to create a virtual LPT1 port which will be then be piped to
the usb printer?

thanks
MAurice

 

[zakezuke]

A client has a new notebook with no parallel port but has a legacy dos app
that will only print to LPT1: There are no options for modifying the print
parameters and the developer has long since disappeared.

Is there anyway to create a virtual LPT1 port which will be then be piped to
the usb printer?

thanks
MAurice

What would most likely be easier would be to share the USB printer
under windows, and redirect lpt1: to //printername/printer. I'm
feeling too lazy to look up the details at the moment as this is not
something I do on a daily basis, but what you say is very possible.

 

[Bob Headrick]

A client has a new notebook with no parallel port but has a legacy dos
app that will only print to LPT1: There are no options for modifying
the print parameters and the developer has long since disappeared.

Is there anyway to create a virtual LPT1 port which will be then be
piped to the usb printer?

If the application will run from a DOS box in Windows XP the solution at
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/printfromdos.htm may help.

Regards,
Bob Headrick, MS MVP Printing/Imaging

 

[Dean]

For a little over $100 (USD) buy a Quatech SPP-100 Parallel PCMCIA
Card. It defaults to LPT3, but may be reconfigured for LPT1. Then plug
your parallel cable into the PC card's dongle.
http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=PARALLEL+PCMCIA&hl=en&btnG=Search+Froogle

Dean

 

[Dean]

For a little over $100 (USD) buy a Quatech SPP-100 Parallel PCMCIA
Card. It defaults to LPT3, but may be reconfigured for LPT1. Then plug
your parallel cable into the PC card's dongle.
http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=PARALLEL+PCMCIA&hl=en&btnG=Search+Froogle

Dean