Re: [Freedos-user] DOS printing

2015-06-04 Thread Felix Miata
Don Flowers composed on 2015-06-04 11:26 (UTC-0400): > All but one of my computers have parallel ports (the advantage of buying HP > Enterprise machines off-lease) Parallel ports on a PC aren't much of a problem. PCI add-in cards with parallel ports are available new, and there are probably hundr

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS printing

2015-06-04 Thread Mateusz Viste
On 04/06/2015 17:17, Eric Auer wrote: > I can only guess that there are network printer drivers or at least > netcat for DOS. I actually wrote about something like this 8 years ago. This is a trick I was using to print files on my network printer from FreeDOS. https://www.mail-archive.com/freedo

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS printing

2015-06-04 Thread Don Flowers
All but one of my computers have parallel ports (the advantage of buying HP Enterprise machines off-lease) - I'm just trying to find a reasonbly priced Dot Matrix printer :^) On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi! > > > This question interests me too, as I just bought a new HL

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS printing

2015-06-04 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > This question interests me too, as I just bought a new HL-5470DW printer > today to replace a Canon that provided no emulation of any kind. The new > provides Epson FX, IBM Proprinter and PCL6 emulations in addition to > Brother's own language, but neither parallel port nor serial port Qui

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS printing

2015-06-04 Thread John Hupp
On 6/4/2015 5:18 AM, Felix Miata wrote: > Thomas Mueller composed on 2015-06-04 07:20 (UTC): > >> I've been unable to get my printer, HP LaserJet Professional 1212nf MFP >> working. >> Now I think it might be nonstandard implementation of PostScript or whatever >> command language. > Legacy DOS a

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS printing (was: dos usb driver!)

2015-06-04 Thread Felix Miata
Thomas Mueller composed on 2015-06-04 07:20 (UTC): > I've been unable to get my printer, HP LaserJet Professional 1212nf MFP > working. > Now I think it might be nonstandard implementation of PostScript or whatever > command language. Legacy DOS apps relied on drivers specific to them. DOS its