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November 20, 2006 at 04:56 AM
stergios_nik

How to capture printer port in XP

by stergios_nik . Updated 17 years, 5 months ago

Hello.

I have a network printer and my Windows XP clients connect to it via the network.

The problem I have is that I use an old DOS program that requires local LPT1 connection in order to print out the data.

In Windows 98 I was connecting to this network printer and when I was installing the printer’s driver I could specify to CAPTURE printer’s port and set it to LPT1. By doing this the old DOS program could print on the network printer.

In Windows XP I noticed that I no longer can configure the printer driver because it downloads it automatically from the server thus I can not make this “capturing”.

Any ideas how I can I do this in Windows XP?

Thank you in advance.

Stergios

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