HI everyone: Just wanted to share that after years of trying to print to USB printer I finally gave up last year printing anything. Some discussion about outputting in HTML last year and networked printers -- too much trouble to arrange. As we all know, parallel port pretty much don't exist anymore, just USB. Now, I just realized that all these years I could have used the built in Microsoft XPS printer. For those of you not familiar with this, it's a virtual printer built into windows.that turns your DP output into a .XPS document which be pulled into any web browser or modern word processor. >From there, you just print to whatever available printer you want. 1. You'll need DPSpool to make it work: File>Select Printers> select Microsoft XPS from dropdown list. 2. When print job is done, pop up screen will ask you to name document and what folder to save it to (I recommend desktop so you don't lose it). 3. Double clicking on the XPS icon in your desktop automatically retrieves in IE (or you can open it up in your word processor). 4. Finally, print it up anyway you like (ctrl-P) Bonus from this method is that you can attach output to any email without even using the printer. Some questions to ponder: 1. Is the Microsoft XPS printer convertng ASCII into HTML? 2. WIll margins and formatting be preserved for forms and multiple page docs (so far it seems to be after using it twice) 3. Is it possible to automate steps I have outlined to get it directly to printer? Seems like a batch file of some sort could accomplish this but not sure. >From DP Dinosaur Club member, Jon Ong
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