Hi Bryan, I believe you have to install DOS USB drivers first. And actually it could work better to use the NETWORK for printing, because DOS (wired LAN) network drivers are more evolved than DOS USB drivers and you can use DOS versions of NETCAT or other tools to copy the contents you want to print to the IP and port of your printer as hopefully listed in your printer documentation or visible in some status information screen when you print from Linux :-)
>> I have just connected my Brother HL-3150CDN laser printer to my Dell>> >> OptiPlex GX270. > I used the FreeDOS "print" command, unembellished. That is only needed for background printing. A more straightforward way is to send the printer data to the printer port: COPY x.txt PRN or COPY x.pdf LPT1 or similar. > The FreeDOS PC monitor listed the following line at the end of > information after I unsuccessfully attempted to print. > >> "Device to direct Print [PRN=0]". This message seems to have the purpose of giving feedback regarding which output device the background printing tool PRINT is using. Unfortunately, there is no PRINT.TXT and only a PRINT.ASM about James Tabor's PRINT 1.02 tool, but it seems to support only: PRINT /1 file.txt Which means "send file.txt to LPT1 in the background" where you can also use /2 or /3 to use LPT2 or LPT3 instead. The MS PRINT tool would also support /S:ticks /M:ticks /U:ticks /Q:count /B:size and /D:device. For things which MS PRINT would support directly, you need the separate PRINTQ tool in FreeDOS: Clear the queue or add more files to the queue later. The whole toolkit seems to be rather minimal in FreeDOS, probably because printing things in the BACKGROUND has been a rarely used feature in the last decade. This tool could use a lot of improvement, but maybe we could just warn people that it is not really necessary and the current tool version is only the most minimal implementation of the feature. > I expect that no data went to the printer. I agree, in particular if you have not loaded USB drivers. >> What do I need to do? Please try via network, or load USB drivers. Also, please use COPY filename LPT1 or COPY filename PRN or similar instead of using PRINT: Background printing adds complexity and gives you less clear view on potential transfer errors. Regards, Eric > http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Printer PS: PRINTQ is a small public domain tool by Robert Mashlan to add or cancel files on PRINT (MS, FreeDOS, etc.) print queues. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
