How to redirect Lpt to IP printer

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Ron

Hi I got an old DOS program thaht need to print to an IP
printer,

How can I redirect an LPT port to print to an IP adress.

Thanks

Ronald
 
Hello,

As far as I know there is no way of directing a LPT port
to an IP address. I have in the past used a work around to
be able to print from DOS applications. Whenever I setup a
printer on the workstation that is going directly to a
network printer, if there is a network share you can use a
DOS command to capture the printer to an LPT port (net use
lpt1 \\server name\share name). If there is no network
share, you can share the printer on the local machine and
use the same command, but use the 127.0.0.1 IP address in
place of the server name.

Good luck...John
 
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