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Printer Problems
LockedI have a small network, (3 computers and a notebook) that have a labarnth of printers attached. One computer has a laser engraver and a hp1100, which is on the server. The second computer has an epson and and different laser engraver. The third has no physical printer attached to the lpt1 but has a engraver attached to the lpt2 physical port.
I set up the printers so that they are shared printers. I can get the hp1100 to print to and from all the computers in Windows mode. But the HP1100 needs to print a dos based program on the computer that has no physical printer on it’s lpt1 port. I can get it to print to dos if I make it the default printer. But it can’t be the default printer because it needs to be the engraver, also a dos based program. The computer used to have a hpiii on it and it was also shared and it was able to print w/o it being the default printer. It I make the HP1100 the default printer, it prints to both DOS and windows programs. But if it’s not it won’t work. I tried in