WinXP Raw Printing?

[Chad McWilliams]

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> Okay, decidedly OT, but maybe some of the 'Doze folks have ideas...
> 
> Basically, I have a need a way to print directly to a WinXP 
> (Home Edition, if it matters) printer, but -without- any sort 
> of print driver in the middle to interpret/filter anything.
> 
> The default text driver was tried, and it strips all print 
> codes out of the file.  We basically have something already 
> formatted--we just need to send it out to the printer raw 
> without any kind of interpretive driver in the middle.
> 
> Any leads or ideas?
> 
> mark->
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Try looking at Microsoft's Knowledge Base Article 150930.  If you are
printing to the windows machine using LPD/LPR, then the registry changes
mentioned in the article will probably fix your problem.

-Chad McWilliams