fp to local printer question

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at spamcop.net
Tue Nov 2 13:28:35 PDT 2010


On 11/2/2010 3:22 PM, Richard Hane wrote:
[...]
> The computer is running Windows7 with a virtual XPPro.  filePro is on the 32 bit
> virtual.  We are printing via usb.

Why not just run it natively on Win7?

> pfprinter=frank and the printer is named frank.  I think the problem is with the
> port designation.
>
> The port is listed as TS001.  So I changed the printer definition for 'frank'
> from lpt1 to TS001.
>
> We do not get any printout.  We also do not get any error message.  The report
> is not even in the queue.

My guess is that it just created a file called "TS001" in the current directory.

> Note that other programs on the 32 bit virtual to print to the print.
>
> Any thoughts and help would be appreciated.

Try the "win:printername" format of the destination.

-- 
Kenneth Brody


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