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to: JAMES HILL
from: DON BACH
date: 1996-06-18 17:13:00
subject: ACAD R13 Win printing

Hi, James!
 JH> I have a Pentium 133 with 32megs of RAM DOS 6.22/WFW 3.11 and AutoCAD 
R13 
 JH> for DOS/Windows with the c4 patch, running ACAD in 
 JH> Windows.  The problem I am having is that my computer 
 JH> is shared with 8 others to an HP Laserjet II p printer. 
 JH>  Since the upgrade from R12 I can not print.  It seems that ACAD is 
 JH> trying to print directly to my LPT1 port and DOS/WFW 
 JH> have redirected it to COM1 for the shared printer.  
I'm using Win3.1 with Acad R13C3.  On my computer, I've installed the Windows 
Printer driver and use it to go to my HP 560C using the Lantastic 5 spooler.  
This works really well.  You will need to have the proper driver for your 
printer installed in Windows (HP supplies them).
I've gone directly to a Calcomp pen plotter on another computer through the 
network, but I don't remember how I did it.
Another way to print is to have the output go to a file and then use a copy 
utility to copy it to the port.  You may be able to use the network name as 
the file name and have it spooled to the printer.
Hope this helps!
Don
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