Printing

[Kenneth Brody]

On 8/23/2011 1:08 PM, Richard Kreiss wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kenneth Brody [mailto:kenbrody at spamcop.net]
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 12:57 PM
>> To: Richard Kreiss
>> Cc: Filepro 2 List
>> Subject: Re: Printing
>>
>> On 8/23/2011 12:52 PM, Richard Kreiss wrote:
>>> I have been setting USB printers on window7 computers to pooling with
>>> the usb port and to LPT1.
>>
>> Why not use "win:printername" instead?
>
> Got the message - can't open lpt1

Why not use "win:printername" instead of "lpt1"?

> There are 15 users here and I have found that the 3 other machines running
> win7 have no problem with the print pooling option.  All have different HP
> LaserJet printers attached.  The win7 machines are using the universal pcl
> 5driver.

Okay.  What about this computer, however?

>>>   This has worked until today on one computer.
>>
>> What happened to cause it to stop working?  (And, of course, "DDW".)
>
> New HP computer the other are Dell configured for UPS world ship.

So it never actually worked on this computer?

> I keep getting an error message can't open LPT1.

Then there's no "lpt1" to print to.  Use "win:printername" instead.

> As I have tried all of the normal methods, I need to set his startup file to
> use the above to direct his printing to this USB printer.
[...]
>>> I have used the F6 option to set the destination for this computer.
[...]
>>> Destination set using F6

And the destination is...???

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Kenneth Brody