Re: printer error messages

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

Harry Binswanger wrote:
> > > 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.
OK, but you were saying you had the same printer on both your
wife's PC and yours, and could print to it (at first) on yours,
but not on your wife's. So I assumed the printer on her PC would
also be included in the Net Use report.
> > Krumpet (which I assume is your wife's machine? clever name)
>
> It's the name of a pet she had as a child.

Cat or Dog? Or maybe gerbil? I bet a cat.
> 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. And you can have
several printers in the PP table specifying the same lpt (over at
the office, I have a couple of LJ drivers listed in the PP table,
each prefixed by lPT2--which in that case is a real second
parallel port card on the system).
> >  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.
> The Canon's own drivers I
> never change (on both machines, they were installed from the CD).
When it was printing on one PC and not on another, I suspected
that the printer might have different compatibility modes, and
different ones got installed on different PCs. Some printer
driver install CDs give you an option of which drivers to
install. So I was thinking maybe one had PCL and one didn't.

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Patricia M. Godfrey
priscamg@xxxxxxxx