Windows 7 Printing to a Network Printer

[Kenneth Brody]

On 12/14/2010 4:07 PM, John Hemmer wrote:
> How do I define a printer to print to a Network Printer

"win:printername"

> The printer IP number is 192.168.1.100
>
> I have moved my filePro 5.0.14 Full Development Single User system from XP
> to Windows 7, and I am having trouble printing to a local networked  printer
> that I used with XP.

How did you print to a network printer under XP?

> I have tried the following in the configuration file:
>
> printer1=print_it,HP_OJ,192.168.1.100,send the output to the system printer.
>
> but I do not get anything to print.

Well, it "printed" to a file named "196.168.1.100" in the current directory.

> Prior to this I tried:
>
> printer1=print_it,HP_OJ,lpt1,send the output to the system printer.
>
> and the system replied that lpt1 did not exist.

That's because "lpt1" doesn't probably doesn't exist, unless you have a 
local parallel printer port.


Use "win:printername", where "printername" is the name as known to Windows. 
  (Note that, in 5.6, you can press F6 while in pmaint's "destination" field 
to get a list of Windows-defined printers.)

-- 
Kenneth Brody