Printing from a DOS Session to an IP Printer

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I'm trying to figure out how to print from a Win2k DOS session to a
Magicolor 2200 Desklaser running as an IP network printer using the Crown
driver. Does anybody know if this is possible?
 
When you say IP network printer, do you mean

1. that the computer running the DOS application has the printer defined as
a Local Printer on a Standard TCP/IP port
or
2. that the computer running the DOS application has the printer defined as
a Network Printer that is defined on a Windows 2000 (or 2003) print server
computer

I'm not familiar with this particular printer, but you may find that if you
define the "printer" with a "generic" type driver such as the HP LaserJet 4
or "Generic Text Only", and print to that from a DOS application it may
work.

The Konica Minolta site says that the "Crown version" of these printers
support HP PCL, which is why I make this suggestion.

If you are using case 2 above, you may need to add a second "printer" on the
print server and associate the "generic" driver (HP Laserjet 4 or Generic
Text Only) driver with that "printer". The computer running the DOS
application could then have this second printer added as a Network Printer
and use the LPT port mapping using the "net use" command.
 
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