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Can't print from legacy DOS app

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by tmhunt2

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I have a clinet that upgraded to Win2K and the legacy DOS app only printed occassiionlly. Now it has stopped printing altogether. Have tried changing parallel port settings from uni-directional to bi-directional in bios but that works for a day. Itis a local printer (HP)with the latest driver.

Prints fine from windows. Tried sharing the printer and mapping back to it using "net use lpt1: \\machine_name\printer_share_name /persistent:yes" as per MS suggestion. This only gives a very generic "print error" in the dos app.

Any ideas?

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by jerman

You don't mention the type of printer, LaserJet or DeskJet: I've encountered some strange printer errors after upgrades with HP, suggest you blow away the printer and delete all the driver files. Re-add the printer, making sure you use the "have disk" option (download appropriate driver first, and expand). If that fails to fix the problem, and it's a LJ, try a "lower" driver, ie, a LJ4 drivre for a 6P or a 4000 (yeah, this will work).

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