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by krauses

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In both Win2000 and XP, while using a dedicated printer connected to printer port 1, the printer will spool for 15 seconds before printing no matter how the printer is set. I have tried every possible combination of printer and port settings but still have the same problem. In Windows NT their was a setting for "DO NOT SPOOL DOS PRINT JOBS", this is what I need.

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by luis.dominguez

MS-DOS applications use the NT spooler to print. The spooler waits for a timeout period (15 seconds, by default) to expire before sending data to the printer. If the print job takes longer to generate than the timeout period, the spooler sends the generated data to the printer, causing the print job to split over multiple pages.

To work around this problem, perform the following steps to increase the timeout value:

Start the registry editor (regedit.exe).
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\WOW.
Double-click LPT_timeout.
Set the LPT_timeout value to a longer time (e.g., 30 seconds).
Click OK.
Close the registry editor.

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