Printing with Lexmark under Win XP

[jajiyiko]

Hi!
I have a problem. I can not print my application under
Win XP with USB. How can I do it?

 

[pbsd]

Set the printer up as a shared printer through a server or PC, ie., \\server\sharename.

Then,
RUN ("Net Use lpt1 \\server\sharename /persistent:yes&quot

All lpt1 output will be routed to the shared printer with this command.

To disconnect, RUN ("Net Use lpt1 /delete&quot

HTH.

 

[TonHu]

I couldn't findthis link before, but now I can ;-)

http://www.dse.nl/~tmk/clipper/clpwinprint.htm

HTH
TonHu

 

[SM777]

I couldn't get the Net Use method to work. On investigation I found the following.

If you are using a networked printer, and the pc you are printing from hasn't got the printer attached e.g.

PC-A = usb printer
PC-B networked as peer to peer with PC-A

Then you still need to have the LPT1 port enabled in the bios.

For networked pcs with no printer attached I always disable the port in the bios. You shouldn't do this for clipper printing.

Next problem I had was that the net use would always fail with a 'connection in use' type of error.

Just delete the port with:

net use lpt1: /delete

and then recreate the connection with

net use lpt1 \\pc-a\printer /persistent:yes