Virtual LPT1 to USB

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A client has a new notebook with no parallel port but has a legacy dos app
that will only print to LPT1: There are no options for modifying the print
parameters and the developer has long since disappeared.

Is there anyway to create a virtual LPT1 port which will be then be piped to
the usb printer?

thanks
MAurice
 
Maurice said:
A client has a new notebook with no parallel port but has a legacy dos app
that will only print to LPT1: There are no options for modifying the print
parameters and the developer has long since disappeared.

Is there anyway to create a virtual LPT1 port which will be then be piped to
the usb printer?

thanks
MAurice
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What would most likely be easier would be to share the USB printer
under windows, and redirect lpt1: to //printername/printer. I'm
feeling too lazy to look up the details at the moment as this is not
something I do on a daily basis, but what you say is very possible.
 
Maurice said:
A client has a new notebook with no parallel port but has a legacy dos
app that will only print to LPT1: There are no options for modifying
the print parameters and the developer has long since disappeared.

Is there anyway to create a virtual LPT1 port which will be then be
piped to the usb printer?
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If the application will run from a DOS box in Windows XP the solution at
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/printfromdos.htm may help.

Regards,
Bob Headrick, MS MVP Printing/Imaging
 
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