Fwd: fp and usb printer

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Richard Hane (Tue, 9 Oct 2007 06:22:02 -0700 (PDT)):

>   Hi all,
>
>   We have filepro 1.0.13D09 ODBC network version on a Windows network.
>
>   I am trying to hook up a new HP2015dn printer to a workstation   
> (not as a network printer).  I connects via usb not lpt1.
>
>   The priner works fine in all windows programs but I am having a   
> problem with the post definition in printer maintenance.  How do I   
> id the usb post?  I tried changing lpt1 to usb and that did nothing.

You can set the destination to "WIN:printername", where "printername"
is the name exactly as Windows knows it.

However, you may have a secondary issue, and that is many inexpensive
USB printers are "host-based", formerly known as "Windows-only".  These
printers have no brains on them beyond "put a dot of ink on the paper
and move the print head".  (They can't even print the letter "A" without
the host computer generating a picture of the letter "A" and sending
that picture to the printer.)  If that's the case, then you can't use
any of the "normal" print code tables in filePro.  filePro 5.6 includes
a table "fp2rtf", which generates an RTF file which can then be printed
via another program (one such program is included with 5.6).  I do not
know if fPODBC 1.0 supports this.

What is the make/model of the printer?

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