Printing to a USB port

[Ed Olmstead]

"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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