Re: Printing XyWrite

["Fred Weiner" fw1948@xxxxxxxx]

If I might chime in here, the best solution for printing via USB is R.
Holmgren's postghost routine, using the U2 frame "typ". Amply
documented in the XYWWWEB pages, the U2 documentation, and
downloadable. Foolproof, the only drawback being that if you don't
have a specific driver for your printer and have to use the generic
one included with the downloadable package, it can move kind of
slowly. Try it.

Fred Weiner

On 8/27/06, BrennerNY@xxxxxxxx  wrote:

>>The HP Laserjet 1020 looked as though it would be a suitable replacement.
And, >>indeed, it will print email, Excel, Word, Family Tree, The New York
Times' >>crossword, etc. But it won't print XyWrite! Note that the
computer and printer are >>connected by USB cable (in contrast to the former
LPT1). But when I tell XyWrite >>to print a file that is on the screen,
XyWrite says "printer error" and declines further cooperation.

 This problem has been solved. It was most recently addressed, on and
off-list, by Patricia Godfrey. I haven't yet implemented the solution myself
-- I expect I'll have to do it with my next printer -- but she has done it
very recently. Here are a couple of her messages about how to trick Xywrite
into working with a USB-connected printer. The second contains references to
archived material about it:

 >>Let me repeat, with XP, you CAN print to printer over a USB cable from
 Xy. You do it using the Net USE command (or using "Capture Printer port"
 through the Windows GUI), thus tricking Xy--and all DOS apps--into
 "thinking" that USB port is a parallel one.

 >>First you install the printer under Windows. Then you
 right click on it under Printers (which used to be part
 of control panel, but may have been moved somewhere
 else in XP; Grrr...), choose Sharing, check off Shared,
 and give it a name. Remember the name you gave it,
 exactly (spaces, maybe even caps and lowercase). Also
 be sure you know the name of your new computer. If you
 don't, open a DOS prompt and type
 net view
    >>Hit return. A screen should display the name of your
 PC, preceded by two backslashes (e.g., mine says
 \\Bethany).
    >>Now create a batch file, which you should run before
 you run Xy (or include this line in any batch file by
 which you launch Xy), consisting of this one command:
 NET USE LPT1 \\computername\sharename /PERSISTENT:YES
 substituting the name of your PC (revealed by net view)
 for "computername" and the name you assigned when you
 declared the printer shared for "sharename".
    >>Within Xy, load whichever driver you decide to use,
 specifying lPT1. You can find more detailed discussion
 of all this in the following posts:
 9/7/2003: Robert Holmgren's on USB printer and OED
 11/07/2003: Robert Holmgren's on Re Trouble
 11/19/2003: mine Re Trouble
 3/17/2005: Harry on Getting an LPT4 on XP
 May 2006: long thread beginning with E. van Ness's post
 configure Xywrite for USB printer?, where I also
 reprise Robert's directions for PostGhost.
 --
 Patricia M. Godfrey
 PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx