printing from dos program

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Peter Berlin

I have been printing to an hp 920 from a dos based program
on my xp professional system for 6 months without any trouble.
Just yesterday it stopped printing
all windows programs print just fine but I can't print from
the program or from the command prompt.

any ideas out there?
 
Peter Berlin said:
I have been printing to an hp 920 from a dos based program
on my xp professional system for 6 months without any trouble.
Just yesterday it stopped printing
all windows programs print just fine but I can't print from
the program or from the command prompt.
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Try this: "How to Restore the Operating System to a Previous State in
Windows XP" (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306084).
 
thanks, already tried that...no luck....
I'm going to try another printer...just for fun.
 
I have been printing to an hp 920 from a dos based program
on my xp professional system for 6 months without any trouble.
Just yesterday it stopped printing
all windows programs print just fine but I can't print from
the program or from the command prompt.

any ideas out there?
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How is the printer connected? LPT1, USB or Network?
If USB or Network then you need to share the printer and then
apply LPT1 to it to use from DOS:

NET USE LPT1: \\pcname\printersharename

Peter Hutchison
Windows FAQ
http://www.pcguru.plus.com/
 
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