Re: Thinktank printing from WinXP

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Outliners.com Message ID: 1839

Posted by aderoy
2004-02-19 07:42:54

Is the laserjet on LPT1/2? Or is it on the network?

If the network then the only way I have been to able print is the hard way:

- print to a file
- open the file in a text editor (vedit) or notepad?
- or: copy /b filename.txt \\hostname\queuename
- print from there.

Win2K or WinXP does not allow direct writing to ports which does cause a problem.

If network, then capture the port as lpt’x’.

This might work for above had not needed to test. At work all printers are networked so I do the print to file.

Arnold