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Printing to a USB printer in DOS

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by peterbakker Mar 20, 2003 last reply Mar 25, 2003

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Is it possible to print to a USB printer in a DOS program? (QBasic)?

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Peter

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by sgt_shultz Mar 20, 2003

well, this is not what you are looking for maybe but i would think you could capture the port to lpt1 (look in the printer driveer properties in windows) then if you stayed in windows and used qbasic in a command shell, it would print to lpt1...

by peterbakker Mar 22, 2003

Thankyou

by swomack Mar 20, 2003

It is not possible to print to a USB printer from DOS. We had an HP laser printer and tried to print from a DOS program and couldn't. I called HP tech support and they said it can't be done.