Re: Printing Query

Brendan,

I had the same thing happen to me, and the solultion is so easy, you won't believe it.  Here's a cut n' paste of a March 21 discussion from Geert DeBaets. 

Charlie
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On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:57:13 +0100, Charles Wolf <cgwolf-trCJn378xz3R7s880joybQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:

I think you already have: XP acts as a print server.

Try the following:

1: Turn on 'Printer Pooling' (Settings/Printers/Ports)
2: Leave the default port ("Virtual printer port for USB")
3: *add* LPT1 as the second port to be pooled.

You should be able to print a report from DP to LPT1 now...

For my own edification, what is the downside of using the parallel  connection instead of the USB on the color printer?

None, as far as I know!

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Regards, Geert

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Brendan Magill wrote:

Hi everyone,

I must be showing my age or something, but I can't seem to work this one out.

Up until a couple of days ago I had an old parallel port printer, connected to LPT1.  This had run for years, but eventually gave up the ghost.  I've just purchased a new printer, which is the first USB printer I've had on my own system.  This is printing fine from all the usual Windows applications, but I don't know how to print to it from DP.  Since it is the only printer on the system, I sort of assumed that Windows would redirect LPT1 from DP to the USB port, but no such luck.  Instead, DP hangs when I try to print.  I'm sure there is a simple fix for this, but can't seem to find it, though I'm still looking.

I'm running Windows XP Home and have previously had no problems with DP at all.  I'm running DP without Shell.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Cheers,

Brendan.

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