Re: printer error messages

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Patricia wrote:
> > 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.
> Right to omit persistent until you get it working. Lpt2 was common enough
> in the old days when one might well have a real LPT1 (parallel port) on
> one's system. Every PC here still does, except for this Vista laptop, and
> the printer here doesn't support HPPCL or Postscript, so I cannot test
> whether or not lpt1 might be better. Anyone with a no-parallel-port
> machine and an HP printer to which he or she prints using Net use care to
> comment on which lpt assignment he or she uses?
> > > > 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.
> Yes, it does. But then the PP table has to match. If you've said the
> Canon's on lpt2, then the Xy driver you want to use with it has to have
> lpt2 before it in the PP table.
But per above it seems to: c:\xy\hpdj660c.prn is the PRN file that works
with most inkjet printers, and I tried several others (on LPT2) to no avail.
> > >  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.
> Well, as I just remmebered, you don't have to edit it each time. But you
> do have to change/revise/correct/edit the PP table so that the initial
> lptx specs, before you cite the fully qualified path name of the Xy
> driver, reads lpt2 (if, in fact, that's what you've mapped the USB port to
> with Net Use). They have to match. Otherwise, you're telling Xy to send
> the data stream to lpt3, when the printer's sitting waiting for it at lpt2.

Again, I am indeed sending it to LPT2 to the best of my knowledge.


Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx