I have a postscript text file I need to copy to a printer. If the printer is local there is no problem in copying to the printer. But the printer is on the network. When I try to copy from the command prompt nothing happens, e.g. copy a:file.ext prn: I have seen where the copy command has been used to send to a net work printer with copy a:file.ext \\routing\printername but efforts to try this come back with device not recognised. Any suggestions for getting this to work would be appreciated.

Perhaps if you temporarily map a new lpt port to your printer and copy to the port instead it might work better. ex: net use lpt2 "printername" (without quotes) copy "filename" lpt2 Give that a try from the command prompt and see if that doesn't work.