xp serial printer dos pos program

[jdumont]

no luck at hardware group so I'll try posting here.
i am doing this in a batch file before starting the pos program
mode com1:96,n,8,1,p
mode lpt1:=com1:

I can print once or twice but after that it goes back to garbage.
xp pro
dos program runs full screen.
I'll try it in a window for a while and
see what happens.

nope... running in a dos window is doing the same as when it is in full screen

tried running msconfig and add Com1AutoAssign=0 to the [386enh]
section with no success.

the pos program has a receipt setup part to it.
at the end of the receipt I put in a 27 105 code for cutting the paper. Is this screwing things up? we shall see
nope... took the cut codes out and still wonky.
the sucker did work last year with a different pc but I've gone over the settings a few times.
grrrrr.

 

[DTSMAN]

Can you use OPOS drivers? I'm not a programmer and that is all I can think of that some of our third party softwares use to interact with printers.

Bo

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[jdumont]

No... no opos drivers. Even tried installing it as a Generic/Text only printer. Thanks for the suggestion.

 

[HiFromCA]

I would try using lpt2 instead of lpt1. I seem to recall Windows can get flakey when you mode map a port name that physically exists. Just an idea, been a while since I worked in DOS.

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