"print.exe" printing doesn't use "Printing Preferences"

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Carl Benker

When I print a file using "print.exe", the printed output
doesn't use the options that I have set
in "Start/Settings/Control Panel/Printers....Printing
Preferences".

In the "Printing Preferences", I have selected that print
jobs should use a certain input tray and be printed 2-
sided. Printing from Windows applications works just
fine, but printing using the "print.exe" command in
Windows doesn't work the way I have specified.

Any workaround ideas? Can someone from Microsoft look
into fixing this?
 
Carl Benker,
When I print a file using "print.exe", the printed output
doesn't use the options that I have set
in "Start/Settings/Control Panel/Printers....Printing
Preferences".
Click to expand...

AFAIK the PRINT command simply sends the file to the port, without using the
Windows driver.

If your ascii files contains simple text, you could use Printfil to send
them to the printer using the driver's settings.

Kind regards,
Davide Guolo
 
Davide,

I assume that "Printfil" doesn't mind PostScript files,
right? If so, "Printfil" looks like it might work for
me. The files that I am trying to print are PostScript
files, and I am trying to print them using the "lp"
command in Microsoft's "Services for Unix"
(http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/) which uses
the "print.exe" command to send the job to the printer.

Do I need to interact with "Printfil" or will it run as a
command-line utility like "print.exe"?

Carl
 
Carl,

My answer is in microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax

Regards
Davide
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