-=> Quoting Dan Ceppa to Ben Carpenter <=-
 
 DC> If it "locks" up, I may have a solution for that, too.  It 
 DC> took me some tries to figure out how to print from DOS to 
 DC> a WIN printer.  
 
 BC> Explain what you mean by a WIN printer?  

 DC> I have a Compaq ink jet printer that can't be accessed directly 
 DC> from DOS.  I probably just should add a second printer port 
 DC> and just run my dot matrix in DOS mode, but I'm stubborn!  

 Ok like a WinModem.
 
 BC> tricks I could use a couple three.  I have a network with a printer
 BC> on one puter.  The one I run most DOS applications is not the one with
 BC> the printer.  I can print across the network fine from Win
 BC> applications but not from DOS.  Any ideas.

 DC> If the WIN printing works, the DOS printing should too, I think.  

 Mine is not a Win printer as you described above.  My printer works
 fine from DOS on the machine that it is attached to.  It is DOS across
 the network as the application wants to print to LP1 on the machine it
 is installed on.  Same application on machine with printer installed
 prints fine.

 DC> One thing you have to do is to set the printer to allow 
 DC> DOS emulation.  

 DC> In my situation, DOS printing is far slower than when I print 
 DC> from a WIN app.  But, most of what I print are single pages, 
 DC> so it is not that much of a bother.  My biggest hassle is that 
 DC> I think the printer wants to be accessed by a Compaq computer!  

 My DOS printing jobs are small also and speed is not a big factor.  I
 have a couple windows applications that I get in to bigger print jobs
 and when I set them to print I most often get a snack or something
 while it finishes.

... Ben    

... You can't teach people to be lazy--either they have it, or they don't.
--- Blue Wave/DOS v2.30