Re^2: Raw Data to Printer on Win XP

Rapturous, demented gibbering and giggling fills the air...

Success! Okay, let's doc this puppy.

First, I took the trouble to go to

Start / Settings / Printers_and_Faxes / Deskjet500 on US 
    / Printer / Properties / Sharing

And clicked on "Share this Printer" and gave my printer a share name.

Then, at a command prompt (mmm... command prompt, good!), the following did ensue:

>net view \\GatewayM275
Shared resources at \\GatewayM275

Dv's Gateway M275

Share name  Type   Used as  Comment
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DJUSB002    Print           DeskJet 500 on USB
Printer     Print           Journal Note Writer
SharedDocs  Disk
The command completed successfully.

>net use LPT1: \\GatewayM275\DJUSB002
The command completed successfully.

>net view \\GatewayM275
Shared resources at \\GatewayM275

Dv's Gateway M275

Share name  Type   Used as  Comment
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DJUSB002    Print  LPT1     DeskJet 500 on USB
Printer     Print           Journal Note Writer
SharedDocs  Disk
The command completed successfully.

>echo Hello > LPT1:

And the most beautiful sound did issue forth from my printer. Likewise for:

>print test.txt

Thanks to all who have contributed to this thread. My wife just called me to come home for dinner. I've blown much of the afternoon on this, but I'm outta here!

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Re^3: Raw Data to Printer on Win XP
by leriksen (Curate) on Sep 30, 2004 at 02:59 UTC

I'll make sure I give my Linux boxes an extra big hug before I go to bed tonight !!!

use brain;

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