[nflug] sorry windows printing question

[eric]

Things I would probably try:
1. Read the specifications for the device you are using to convert
parallel to USB:
    call the tech support for the device sometimes they can help with
part of the problem.
2. would it work if you reinstalled the printer software to recognize a
USB printer?
3. tell XP that the DOS program is an old win32 application

Not sure if I understood the problem correctly, hope this helps.


Cyber Source wrote:

> anthonyriga wrote:
>
>> I have friend that has Win XP and is running an old
>> dos program that he needs to print out information
>> from it. The printer that he has is parallel and his
>> laptop only has usb. He ended up buying a usb to
>> parallel converter to use his old printer to print.
>> How do I get dos to print with the converter or
>> winblows to reconize it? Is there a Linux solution
>> that I use to do this? Any suggestions?
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> I just dealt with this the other day. In your friends case, it really
> doesnt matter that he was able to connect the printer, from DOS it's
> going to look for the LPT interface itself. I have seen some tricks to
> supposedly make DOS able to print to a USB port but I never had any
> luck. I don't think your going to find a way around this one. You
> might have better luck using FreeDOS in Linux but I would imagine
> you'll run into the same problem.
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