Windows 7 Printing to a Network Printer

[Rodgers Hemer]

On Dec 14, 2010, at 1:55 PM, Kenneth Brody wrote:

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

Ken: Is this true for all versions of Windows?  If not, can you provide the correct syntax for older versions?

Thanks,

Rodgers Hemer

> 
>> 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
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