Printing to a USB port
Ed Olmstead
EdOlmstead at ofpcinc.com
Sun Dec 5 19:14:18 PST 2004
"fp2rtf" requires FilePro 5.0.9 or better - will not work with earlier
stuff. It simply creates a .rtf file that you can do anything with you
wish - don't think that will solve the problem with low mental ability printer.
At 18:45 12/5/2004, you wrote:
>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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