plasticgob
February 25th, 2005, 11:21 AM
I am attempting to print from a ms-dos based program on a new laser printer, and it simply will not.
I am at the end of my rope I have tried changing as many settings as I could find and yet it does nothing...
It is very important that I print from this program, does anyone have any suggestions?
Frustrated and Pleading
Russell
degsy
February 25th, 2005, 03:18 PM
Welcome :)
What OS, DOS program, Printer?
Can you print from windows?
Can you print from a command prompt? (e.g. using the EDIT program)
terry1930
March 2nd, 2005, 12:06 AM
First, have you tried pressing the "FormFeed" button? My old laser printer needed me to push that to start it printing when it was a DOS program.
Second, if printing from DOS is necessary you may want to spend $19 (Canadian) and buy a little program called DOSPRN. You can get it at www.dosprn.com (http://www.dosprn.com/). This is a neat program. I have my DOS prog do a "print to file", which creats a "file.prn",and then use the dosprn program to print that file. You can change the font and size (some DOS reports need to be in condensed mode so they don't wrap around in wierd fashion-i.e. need font size 17 or so, you will have to experiment.
Note: The program is supposed to capture anything printed to LPT1, but my old DOS programs didn't have my newer printer or a compatible one in the list for me to select, so I had to do the above workaround.
Hope this works for you.