Re: printer error messages

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Patricia wrote:
> Harry Binswanger wrote:
> > I'd greatly appreciate being told of any error in either of them (which
> > follow).
> > =========================================
> > C:\>net use
> > New connections will be remembered.
> > Status    Local   Remote          Network
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > OK      K:    \\KRUMPET\Krumpet C    Microsoft Windows Network
> > OK      LPT2   \\Lita\Canonip1.2     Microsoft Windows Network
> Well, first off, that first entry does NOT look like a printer; it looks
> like a shared drive
Huh? The first one is indeed a shared drive. It's the second one, the one
on LPT2 that is the printer. I don't know what other way a printer on a
network could look.
> Krumpet (which I assume is your wife's machine? clever name)

It's the name of a pet she had as a child.
> net use lpt1 \\mywife'sPC\Canonpr /PERSISTENT:YES
LPT2 has always worked for me in the past. And the Persistent part is
optional, and I'm not bothering with it until I get this working.
> > PP:4
> > LPT2  c:\xy\hpdj660c.prn   testing
> > LPT3  C:\XY\HP4-PLUS.PRN  BROTHER
> > LPT4  C:\XY\POST47.PRN  Postscript
> > LPT1  C:\xy\postghst.prn  Ghostprint
> If your USB port is mapped to lpt2,
I thought that's what mapping LPT2 to \\...\... accomplished. Is there some
other place I have to do this mapping? If so, that's the missing link here.
>  each printer driver you're testing must be associated with lpt2 in the
> PP table. So edit it each time you try a different driver.
I don't follow that. Edit what? And what does trying a different driver
consist of other than changing .PRN files? The Canon's own drivers I never
change (on both machines, they were installed from the CD).

Thanks,
Harry


Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx