Printing to a USB port

[Kenneth Brody]

Grace A Jopling wrote:
[...]
> I cannot for the life of me remember how to print to a printer connected
> to a USB port.  I'm using 4.8N (DOS); it's a Canon BJC-6000 inkjet
> printer and its 'doze name is \\hpdesktop\canon
[...]

You can't print to a BJC-6000 printer from DOS.

The problem here is not the USB port, it's the lack of brains on the
printer.  You could tell filePro to print to "\\hpdesktop\canon", and
filePro will send its output there.  The problem is that the printer
is too dumb to do anything with the output once it got there.

According to Canon, the following "printers" are too dumb to support
printing from DOS programs:

	BJC-55 
	BJC-85 
	BJC-1000 Series 
	BJC-2000 Series 
	BJC-2100 Series 
	BJC-3000 Series 
	BJC-5000 Series 
	BJC-6000 
	BJC-8000 
	BJC-8200 
	BJC-8500 
	S400 
	S450 
	S500 
	S600, S630, S630 Network 
	S800

Current versions of filePro include something called "fp2rtf", which
allow you to print to an RTF file, and then use a program called Atlantis
to print the RTF file.

I do not know if that will work with the 4.8 DOS version.

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