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Printing DOS program via Windows ME

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by jr0410

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We have 3 computers in an office. A new Lexmark inkjet printer is attached to a Windows ME Pentium 4 computer. The other 2 computers are Windows 98 and Windows 95 computers. We are unable to print DOS Foxpro database reports to the printer from either the Windows 98 or 95 machines. It appears that the print jobs are being sent to the printer but nothing prints. Is this a Windows ME problem, Lexmark problem or what? We never had this problem when all 3 machines were Windows 95.

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by soccerman

we had this same problem but not with lexmark printers. What we did was go in through dos and captured printers to lpt1 or lpt2 pending on our needs through the dos(net use lpt1 \\\)

by jr0410

Please let me know where to put that "net use..." statement, since I am not a programmer. We are using Windows through a Novell network.

by fofa

Answer 1 might help, but you can map the printer through networking and tell it to reconnect at login through windows. Sometime with DOS programs you have to change the print from EMF to RAW format (in the printer properties). And for 1 DOS program we even had to set the computer to print directly to the printer (locally attached) rather than spool it.

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