> Use mTCP netcat to move the file to a printer on port 9100. As
> pointed out earlier, most network attached printers listen on port
> 9100 and will blindly accept whatever you send on that port. So you
> can send ASCII text, Epson FX codes, HP PCL or Postscript. Just be
> sure to use "binary m
I kind of got lost on this thread because I couldn't tell if the person was
trying to print to a USB attached printer from DOS or a parallel port
attached printer from DOS.
In general, when I need to print from DOS I do the following:
- Print to a file if the program supports it. If the progr
A few assorted notes:
A couple years ago I've mapped the twisted path from DOS to Samba and
CUPS and documented some landmarks here:
http://support.fccps.cz/download/adv/frr/cups_howto/cups_howto.htm
I do not want to promise, that your average print server will provide
a Samba service for print
and general questions about FreeDOS.
Cc: Eric Auer
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Printing to USB Printers
Hoi Nico,
bedankt voor je uitleg!
> To clarify
> A) It is an epson printer. With a centronics parallel interface
> B) I have a usb to centronics cable wich works ( under windows 10)
Hoi Nico,
bedankt voor je uitleg!
To clarify
A) It is an epson printer. With a centronics parallel interface
B) I have a usb to centronics cable wich works ( under windows 10)
C) The cable interface uses a ch341a chip.
My guess is that this should not matter: There should be
a generic categ
I'm still trying to get printing working with FreeDOS in a virtual machine on
linux and am going to try this. I don't actually care which dot matrix printer
I end up getting to work. For anybody who has been able to use the MSDOS
networking to use a SAMBA shared printer, which model of printer
On Sun, Jul 28, 2024 at 13:41:46 +, Michael Perry
wrote:
> Using FreeDOS 1.3 on bare metal. Yes, I know that USB came well after
> DOS's golden years.
>
> All of the parallel to USB adapters I've seen require Windows
> drivers. I tried USBPRINT without success (although USBDRIVE works
> grea
To clarify
A) It is an epson printer. With a centronics parallel interface
B) I have a usb to centronics cable wich works ( under windows 10)
C) The cable interface uses a ch341a chip.
D) i dont have an ethernet (wired) connection yet with the laptop.
E) DosUsb gives Errors when talking tot the pri
Hi!
If your printer has USB, you could try a generic USB
"printer port" driver as long as the printer still
understands commands DOS apps can produce. Some just
accept plain text, PDF or PostScript, which DOS apps
can produce to some degree.
If your printer only has Centronics, but your PC onl
print
server option a try. Thx.
From: Frantisek Rysanek
Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2024 10:26 AM
To: Michael Perry ; freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Printing to USB Printers
Microsoft Network client for MS-DOS can produce a local LPT device
that gets redirected ov
and general questions about FreeDOS.'
Cc: nico.verd...@ziggo.nl
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Printing to USB Printers
> Michael seems like we have the same problem. I am trying to print to a
> Epson LQ300+ through usb on an DELL inspire 1525 with native freedos
> 1.3 on it.
eeDOS.'
Cc: nico.verd...@ziggo.nl
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Printing to USB Printers
> Michael seems like we have the same problem. I am trying to print to a
> Epson LQ300+ through usb on an DELL inspire 1525 with native freedos
> 1.3 on it.
That's just an evolut
> Michael seems like we have the same problem. I am trying to print to a
> Epson LQ300+ through usb on an DELL inspire 1525 with native freedos
> 1.3 on it.
That's just an evolution of the ultra-classic Epson dot matrix
printers, and it speaks the ultra-classic ESC*P2 print job forma
: Michael Perry
Subject: [Freedos-user] Printing to USB Printers
Using FreeDOS 1.3 on bare metal. Yes, I know that USB came well after DOS's
golden years.
All of the parallel to USB adapters I've seen require Windows drivers. I
tried USBPRINT without success (although USBDRIVE works gre
print jobs to the "legacy" BSD style print service called "lpd",
which is not much consolation / advantage in this scenario.
Frank
To: "freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net"
Date sent: Sat, 27 Jul 2024 13:41:46 +0000
Subject: [Freedos-user] Print
Using FreeDOS 1.3 on bare metal. Yes, I know that USB came well after DOS's
golden years.
All of the parallel to USB adapters I've seen require Windows drivers. I tried
USBPRINT without success (although USBDRIVE works great to copy files to a UBS
drive.) And I'm not interested in running virtu
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