Printing to a USB port

[Kenneth Brody]

Grace A Jopling wrote:
> 
> kenbrody at bestweb.net 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.
> 
> Thanks for the quick reply, Ken, and for the info about the printer.  I
> could have sworn I had printed to it before [using fP] but I guess I didn't!

It's possible that they include an emulator that captures DOS output
and redirects it to the printer, but that's something that would have
to have been supplied by Canon.  (ie: some dumb printers include a
utility to capture PCL output from DOS programs, and convert it to
something that the printer understands.)  However, the specs on the
web page usually indicate something like that.

You can always try capturing the port to LPT2, and then trying something
like "dir >lpt2".

> As a workaround tonight, I printed the fP output to a file and then used
> a word processor to print it. The only problem, which wasn't a big one,
> was figuring out the page formatting within the word processor so it'd
> print as intended.

If that works for you, then you're all set.  Just remember that you
can't do any fancy formatting, and will only have plain text.

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