Thinktank printing from WinXP
Posted by tomcollen
on 2/17/2004
tomcollen
2/17/2004 12:20 pm
I need some help printing ThinkTank outlines to my HP Laserjet. I am running ThinkTank in a DOS window under WIN XP
aderoy
2/19/2004 7:42 am
Is the laserjet on LPT1/2? Or is it on the network?
If the network then the only way I have been to able print is the hard way:
- print to a file
- open the file in a text editor (vedit) or notepad?
- or: copy /b filename.txt \\hostname\queuename
- print from there.
Win2K or WinXP does not allow direct writing to ports which does cause a problem.
If network, then capture the port as lpt'x'.
This might work for above had not needed to test. At work all printers are networked so I do the print to file.
Arnold
If the network then the only way I have been to able print is the hard way:
- print to a file
- open the file in a text editor (vedit) or notepad?
- or: copy /b filename.txt \\hostname\queuename
- print from there.
Win2K or WinXP does not allow direct writing to ports which does cause a problem.
If network, then capture the port as lpt'x'.
This might work for above had not needed to test. At work all printers are networked so I do the print to file.
Arnold