Printing from DOS on USB printer

[Milan Crvcanin]

Can anyone help and tell me if there is any way to print from a DOS program on a printer connected to an USB port under Windows 98?

Thanks!

Milan

 

[thoss]

Can anyone help and tell me if there is any way to print from a DOS program on a
printer connected to an USB port under Windows 98?

Depends on the DOS program. If it has a postscript driver, such as
WordStar, you can print to a PS file and then use Ghostscript to print
this.

 

[Milan Crvcanin]

Depends on the DOS program. If it has a postscript driver, such as
WordStar, you can print to a PS file and then use Ghostscript to print
this.

No, it is an old dBase program which writes on a standard DOS printer supposed to be on LPT1 or LPT2.

 

[Aloke Prasad]

Try Printfile at

http://www.lerup.com/printfile/

Also, some discussion is at

http://groups.google.com/[email protected]&frame=of

 

[Andrew Rossmann]

[This followup was posted to comp.periphs.printers and a copy was sent
to the cited author.]

Can anyone help and tell me if there is any way to print from a DOS program on a printer connected to an USB port under Windows 98?

Turn on 'File and Printer sharing'
Share the printer.
Connect to your own share: NET USE LPT1 \\computer\share

 

[Davide Guolo]

Andrew Rossmann,

Connect to your own share: NET USE LPT1 \\computer\share

Win 9x do not allows network connections to your own workstation.
You may want to have a look at Printfil (commercial)

Kind regards,
Davide Guolo
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