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by joe

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Printing from a Win2000 computer to an HP LJ 4MV on LPT1. In a DOS program, we've tried printing to LPT1, copying to LPT1, printing to WN$PICK, and printing to WN$LPT1. The standard print and copy tests resulted in the warm up process of the printer being initiated, but no print job. The WN$... tests didn't even get that. From the command prompt, the command COPY LPT1, which should spool the file to the LPT1 port does not work either. Any other suggestions? Thanks

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by /dev/null

It does print from Windows apps, right? Does it ever print in dos, even after waiting for many minutes? Have you tried copying a large (10K) file to it? I'm wondering if enough data is in the printer's buffer to print a complete page. Also does the file you're printing have a Form Feed control code at the end of the file?

After trying to print, try to exit out of the command prompt / dos app; does it print then?

It could be the LPT_Timeout setting in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\WOW\LPT_timeout REG_SZ (string) value in seconds. Default is 15. Try changing higher or lower to see if it helps.

Hope this helps.

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