Printing to a lpt port

Hi,

I am using vista home basic, and I am using a dos program which only
uses lpt ports for printing. I have a hp deskjet 3820 printer which has
both a parallel and usb port but my computer only has usb ports. I have
shared the printer and used the net use command to map the lpt1 port to
the shared printer name and it says that the command completed
successfully. However, if I type dir>lpt1, the printer responds and
tries to print but it does not print. Also, if I try to print from
within the program, I receive an error saying the printer is not
coonected properly.

Can anyone help ?


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tracy5436

See:
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/printfromdos.htm
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Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging
www.coribright.com/windows

"tracy5436" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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>
> Hi,
>
> I am using vista home basic, and I am using a dos program which only
> uses lpt ports for printing. I have a hp deskjet 3820 printer which has
> both a parallel and usb port but my computer only has usb ports. I have
> shared the printer and used the net use command to map the lpt1 port to
> the shared printer name and it says that the command completed
> successfully. However, if I type dir>lpt1, the printer responds and
> tries to print but it does not print. Also, if I try to print from
> within the program, I receive an error saying the printer is not
> coonected properly.
>
> Can anyone help ?
>
>
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> tracy5436