Re: Printing to High Speed Dot Matrix Printer from Windows

[david blocker]

Thanks to all of you who wrote with ideas on the WIndow / dot matrix printer issue.  After a talk with Razzak last week, we are convinced that the best solution for now is Franks, the DOS program running to print the report.  We may a few of your last ideas, we are still appalled that this is such a pain to do - but many thanks for your time and thinking!   David Blocker Frank Conroy   ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Byerley To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 5:27 PM Subject: Re: Printing to High Speed Dot Matrix Printer from Windows Actually, the laser printer option will be the least costly over time.  I have an LaserJet III with over 850,000 copies on it and it has never been turned off since 1989 and to date has required $325 in parts and service.  Try that with any number of dot matrix printers that you will wear out.  My accountant has a couple of these old IIIs that have over a million copies on them and have had less maintenance than mine, but his gets turned off at night. (the fuser assembly and a power suppply is what fritzed on mine which is endemic of never cooling down)....   mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Oma Cox To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 2:31 PM Subject: RE: Printing to High Speed Dot Matrix Printer from Windows David, <This works GREAT with a LOCAL printer, but fails on a network printer!!!> How does it fail?   Are you using capture for the LPT1 port for the network printer.  It will work but under windows it will take a few seconds for it to redirect to the network printer. I've got a client who has electronic claims filing (still using a dos based program in windows 95) that doesn't have a local printer for that workstation.  So I capture the LPT1: and redirect it to the network printer (which is on another workstation in the same room).  Under properties on the network printer, if your using 95 or 98, it will have a capture button and then you can define the network path for printing (see site below).   http://www.jmu.edu/computing/faq/captureprinterport.html   or at the dos prompt   NET  USE  LPT1 \\NTSERVER\OKIDATA     I know you don't want to hear this option but I had a client who had a TI850 printer (noisy thing but fast) that they printed all their invoices on (POS - several hundred a day)!  I converted it to a laser HP2100TN(tcp/ip addressed on the network).  Which equaled the speed of the TI with no noise!  They had three carbonless pre printed tractor feed forms.  Which I eliminated the need for by printing three copies (new report in the database that looked just like the invoices they used) to the laser with a note on it to identify the copy as customer(billing), file(customer file) and pickup(customer pickup or delivery signatures).  Been in use for seven months and working just fine and they like it a lot better.     Best regards,   Oma