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by sue.ritter

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I have started fielding calls for help with dos printing using various windows os's. I've had good luck setting up parallel port printers to work using windows 95, 98, 2000, and XP but I've had a couple of calls where there was a printer with an ipaddress instead of the regular \\servername\printer_name that I'm used to. How can I print from dos to a printer setup with an ip address?

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by jmarraffino

From a dos prompt.

NET USE LPT1 : \\XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX (Your IP address).

That should map the port to the ip address of the printer and when the dos pgm prints (to lpt1) the output should be redirected.

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