Thanks for the help, Pat, Tim and Chris! I'll give this a try tomorrow.
I know (well, knew about it in the DOS machine days) about net use, but never thought to implement it for DP! Jeff From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Patrick Riley Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 7:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Printing with DP to a Networked Printer Jeff, to print to a network printer assign your DP print job to a non-existent printer port (LPT3 as an example) and then do this (in Windows XP or 2000): 1. Log into Windows as an Administrator. 2. Click the Start button and choose Run. The Run dialog will appear. 3. Type CMD into the Open field and click the OK button. The command prompt window will appear. 4. Type NET USE LPT3 \\SERVER\PRINTER /PERSISTENT:YES and press Enter. Replace server with the name of the server and printer with the name of the printer. 5. Type EXIT and press the Enter key. The command prompt window will close. 6. On Windows 2000, click the Start button, choose Settings, and choose Printers. On Windows XP, click the Start button and choose Printers and Faxes. 7. Click the Add a Printer link. The Add Printer Wizard will appear. 8. Click the Next button. 9. Ensure that the Local Printer Connected To This Computer setting is selected. 10. Ensure that the Automatically Detect And Install My Plug-and-Play Printer setting is not selected. 11. Click the Next button to continue. 12. Choose LPT3 from the Use The Following Port drop-down menu. 13. Click the Next button to continue. 14. Choose the printer's manufacturer from the Manufacturer field. 15. Choose the printer's model from the Printers field. 16. Click the Next button to continue. 17. Type the desired name for the printer in the Printer Name field. 18. Choose Yes when prompted to make this driver the default. 19. Click the Next button to continue. 20. Choose whether to share this printer as desired. 21. Click the Next button to continue. 22. Click the Next button to print a test page. 23. Click the Finish button to complete this procedure. 24. Close any open windows to return to the desktop. 25. Do a test print from DataPerfect (it should print correctly). Pat Riley At 03:51 PM 1/25/2010, you wrote: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_02FD_01CA9DDE.B0DFD4C0" Content-Language: en-us I have been printing from DP to a printer on LPT1 for years. The parallel printers are getting harder to find. Is there a way to print from DP to a USB or network printer? That would be AWESOME and save me lots of headaches! Jeff From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Pedersen Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 4:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Dataperf] Printing with DP I have forgotten how this works (old man syndrome) I know what the problem is - and what the solution is.... just not how to *do* it. Dos applications you would print to an lpt port. There was no need to close the port. Windows applications wait and wait and wait until the default timeone before it will start printing. I know that you can change the timeout value - however this will yield poor results when printing long reports with pauses between lines printed. Rather, I know that I used to instruct data perfect via a character Ascii 12?? ascii 13?? that it was time to print. Can one remind me how this is done? I know that I purchased DP print long ago - but it wasn't necessary for the solution. (Funny, I can remember steven patamia -but not how to do this) Chris Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. Sign up now. <http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390709/direct/01/> _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
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