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Canīt print from ms-dos application
Name: Beatriz Pauli Date: October 5, 2002 at 07:50:49 Pacific OS: 2000 prof CPU/Ram: PIII/128
Comment:
I send a report to printer from a DOS application, but nothing happened in the printer. I am using win 2000 prof.
Name: bryguy Date: October 5, 2002 at 08:09:24 Pacific
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Turn the printer off and back on again. Can you print from any other application to that printer? Try printing an email message or a Word document as a test. What model printer?
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Response Number 2
Name: zippy Date: October 5, 2002 at 12:53:16 Pacific
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Is it a network printer?
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Response Number 3
Name: JinxĐ Date: October 5, 2002 at 13:37:13 Pacific
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You need to capture the printer port, although I can't recall how exactly. It's been too long since I've had to do this :P But I DO know that's the problem.
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Response Number 4
Name: Klewis Date: October 7, 2002 at 11:53:27 Pacific
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If it's a newer inket printer, then it may not work in DOS at all. Laser printers usually will. Check with the manufacturer. If's it's a local printer, from DOS try dir *.* >LPT1 if it's a network printer, type net use LPT1: \\computername\sharename before you do the dir command. If this works then it's safe to say it's a problem with the application you are using.
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