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| Howard |
 Feb 14 2005, 02:24 PM
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Incontin(g)ent Member  Group: Benefactors Posts: 5,785 Joined: 24-July 03 From: Westlake Village, CA Member No.: 943 Region Association: None 
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Bought a couple of new Minolta PagePro printers for the office. Being a dinosaur, I still use one old dos program. Can print across network fine, but doesn't like to print on resident printer. Have same problem whether usb or parallel. Quick fix?
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| skline |
Feb 14 2005, 02:40 PM
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Born to Drive Group: Members Posts: 7,910 Joined: 26-December 02 From: Costa Mesa, CA Member No.: 17 Region Association: Southern California |
If you share a printer with MS-DOS computers, do not use more than eight characters for the printer's share name. You can lengthen the name by adding a period followed by no more than three characters, but you cannot use spaces in the name
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| rhilgers |
Feb 14 2005, 02:51 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 75 Joined: 17-July 03 From: Santa Clara CA Member No.: 919 |
I was given a free Minolta Page Pro by a vendor... it was not worth it!
Those things are a total pain. Very odd behavior. -Rich Hilgersom |
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| Steve Thacker |
Feb 14 2005, 03:34 PM
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UMMMPH Yea Baby Yea ! UMMMPH Group: Members Posts: 1,089 Joined: 8-January 03 From: Pickerington, Ohio Member No.: 113 Region Association: Upper MidWest |
The minolta I agree is a pain. If you want to send a document to the lp[t1 or lpt2 port use the command below
PRINT [/D:device] [[drive:][path]filename[...]] /D:device Specifies a print device. e.g like this c:\print /D:lpt1 c:\docs\readme.doc, txt, etc..... |
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| Howard |
Feb 14 2005, 03:35 PM
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Incontin(g)ent Member Group: Benefactors Posts: 5,785 Joined: 24-July 03 From: Westlake Village, CA Member No.: 943 Region Association: None
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Scott, just running a dos program within XP. Can print across network fine, but can't print from the PC that is connected to that printer. Try this PC1 has prn1 attached PC2 has prn2 attached Running the dos program, PC 1 can print to prn2, but not to prn1. and Rich, I think it's kinda neat for $60 refurb. fast and good graphics. |
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| skline |
Feb 14 2005, 04:15 PM
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Born to Drive Group: Members Posts: 7,910 Joined: 26-December 02 From: Costa Mesa, CA Member No.: 17 Region Association: Southern California |
Howard, it is important to have the local printer as LPT1. The remote printers should be mapped as LPT2 and 3 respectively, but the local needs to be LPT1. Windows maps the DOS printer locally as LPT1 and the computer bios says the parallel port is LPT1. Try that, it should work. Older DOS programs will only print to LPT1.
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