Have you tried using the NET USE command to capture the LPT output to the installed matrix printer within the DOS session?
Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: Mike Hoffman [mailto:m...@drumbrae.net] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 9:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [HUMOR] Someone misconfigured something somewhere, I think Just out of interest we’ve spent the last week playing with <esc> codes on a printer. We have a client running a vet practice using a dos based invoicing system. He is now unable to get dot-matrix printers to work so we put in an HP LJ1200, but the page width is too wide. I know that putting the codes in a .txt file and then piping that to the printer in the autoexec will set the printer for the session, but I’m going round in circles. Does anyone here know if this sounds like a font, line size, cpi, or other issue with a single <esc> command to sort it? I really had thought I’d seen my last dos box ever!! Mike From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk] Sent: 09 June 2010 14:02 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: [HUMOR] Someone misconfigured something somewhere, I think I'm still trying to get a printout of the PCL font list! andrew On 9 June 2010 21:59, Ben Scott <mailvor...@gmail.com> wrote: On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Steven M. Caesare <scaes...@caesare.com> wrote: >> http://www.upart.biz/ > > Doesn't load now, but I can only assume an open HP printer config page? Yup. I think the printer may have crashed due to all the people on this list trying to load the management UI. :-) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ -- Kind regards, Andrew Levicki MCITP:EDST7/EMA/EA,MCSE,MCSA,MCP,CCNA,ITIL ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~