Help with USB Printer

2007-12-10 Thread Valerie
Hello all! I have written a PERL/Tk program to take input from a user and to print a report back based on the data. It works fine on my Windows XP system with an HP Laserjet 6MP connected to a standard parallel port (LPT1). When I copy the program to a different computer running the same OS but

Re: Help with USB Printer

2007-12-10 Thread Kenneth Ölwing
I have written a PERL/Tk program to take input from a user and to print a report back based on the data. It works fine on my Windows XP system with an HP Laserjet 6MP connected to a standard parallel port (LPT1). When I copy the program to a different computer running the same OS but

Re: Help with USB Printer

2007-12-10 Thread Jenda Krynicky
On 10 Dec 2007 at 10:50, Kenneth Ölwing wrote: I have written a PERL/Tk program to take input from a user and to print a report back based on the data. It works fine on my Windows XP system with an HP Laserjet 6MP connected to a standard parallel port (LPT1). When I copy the program to a

Re: Help with USB Printer

2007-12-10 Thread Daniel Burgaud
Hi, Some years ago, I encountered similar problem. My printer dont accept plain text. And it uses its own proprietary protocol (Canon LBP800). I can no longer use the simple print to LPT syntax.. The only solution was to create GIF/JPEG files from the text I wanted to print. Then use MSPaint to