a simple ASCII stream of data is sent to the printer, allowing the printer to perform that task. However I can't figure out how to do it. The data outputs I get from current software select a font and then send a complicated stream of data to the printer...

Ray Kirby, > I have an old dos app that needs to print to a hp laser 2300 > have setup "net use lpt1: \\computername\pname /persistant:yes Are you sending a simple ascii stream to the printer or PCL codes are included ? What happens if you simply...

if it is a Windows only printer ?? Look at the printer's manual. If neither DOS, nor Unix/Linux is mentioned as "Supported OS", then you probably have a Windows-only printer. If sending an ascii stream to the printer using "COPY filename.txt LPT1:" nothing...

but with the driver set to the FILE: port. Once you have got the file, try to print it with: Copy filename.prn lpt1: If you get your job printed, then your printer does accept a formatted input, but it can't understand a simple ascii stream. In this...

no way for you print from DOS simply by redirecting the stream (by NET USE, pooling or whatever else), because the printer cannot understand a simple DOS ascii stream, but it needs a raw stream created by the Windows driver. You may want to have a look...

is a small, very simple OS. This must involve a new definition of "small" and "very simple"! >Intel could have used OpenBoot (Sun, Mac) as an alternative to rolling >their own. The advantage with EFI is that you can push things not >needed for booting...

they aren't marketed outside the country, probably because you have no ISDN ^^; If you ever do get one for testing (I would find it interesting to see how they compare), then the magic command you need is "console character ascii". I had a big surprise...

the job when it can communicate with the printer again. So check the print queue on your system and cancel the job there while the printer is turned off. Second, you may be sending a postscript print stream to a non-postscript printer of driver. That...

by the existing problem because I think Acrobat renders each page by itself and sends it to the printer as a portrait mode graphics stream. Does anyone know if there is a switch in Windows or in the printer driver, perhaps in the windows registry, which...