Re: Printing with III (XYWRITE digest 2815)

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

William E. Shawcross wrote:
> Continuing on with the saga of my trying to print over my LAN to a
> network printer under XyWrite III+ (network edition) --
Network edition? Was there such a thing? Even if there was, you don't
need it to print.
> Trying to simplify my problem I installed a Generic/Text printer
> (shared) with its port being the octet address of my LAN printer
> (192.168.1.199), and without spooling. A test file from Notepad printed
> without complaint. (This is with the LPT1 cable disconnected, so the
> only connection to the printer -- an HP2100TN -- is through my LAN.)
You don't need octet addresses for this. I don't use them, printing
either to a USB printer attached to the PC (only under W2K--or XP
which I don't use except occasionally to test) or to a real network
printer. Just the Net use command (run only once) and the LPT
assignment within Xy.
> Here is the relevant part of my WES.NET file:
>
> ;Printer Files Selected (SETP)
> ;®TS20,60¯
> pp:2
> LPT1  C:\XY\3HP2100.PRN  PCL 6 Printer
> LPT1  C:\XY\POST    PostScript Printer
How would you print from III (this is what I cannot remember) if no
network were involved?
> When I print a file from XyWrite, the file passes through the selected
> XyWrite printer driver and out the LPT1 port directly to the printer
> over the Centronics cable.

Right.
> Now when one selects a shared printer, the data stream passes through
> the XyWrite PRN file, then through the Windows driver for the particular
> printer,
NO. If it did, we could use TrueType and USB printers. The trick with
a shared printer, either a real network share or a pseudo network
share under W2K/XP, is to map the network share or the local USB
printer to the nonexistent parallel port. Now if you have a REAL
parallel port, I THINK you have to assign the mapped share to another
LPT port.
> (2) Use the NET USE LTP1 command to hook directly to the printer without
> going through \\servername\sharename.
You have to cite the share name in Net Use.

Look, try this:
1. Determine the UNC name (not the octet address) of the printer.
(Printers, right click on the icon for that printer, Properties; I'm
working on 98 here, so I cannot say exactly where you'll find it, but
one of those tabs should display it, in a form like this:

\\ComputerName\\HPLJ5000
)
2. Write down the UNC name.
3. Open a DOS prompt and type
net use lpt2 \\Computername\HPLJ5000 /persistent:Yes (using the UNC
name you found in step 1)
4. In Xy, set up your printer to print to LPT2

Call a file, and try to print it.

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Patricia M. Godfrey
PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx