Printing to remote printers

[flowersoft at compuserve.com]

I'll be a little more specific as to what needs to be done.  Let's say we
have 3 different locations, the main location (let's call it location #1)
has the server, FilePro and printers and the other locations connect to the
server using remote desktop connection.  These remote locations also have
local printers connected to their own local network.  The object is to have
the ability to print from FilePro to any of the printers from any of the
locations.  In other words, location #1 could print to the printer at
location #3 as well as its own printer(s).  Location #3 could print a
printer at location #1 or location #2 or its own local printers.  In the
past I've been able to print from a remote location to a printer at the main
location without any problems, but local printing although possible is not
always reliable from filePro and printing from the main location to a remote
location I've never tried.  Could Print Wizard be the answer?

-----Original Message-----
From: filepro-list-bounces+flowersoft=compuserve.com at lists.celestial.com
[mailto:filepro-list-bounces+flowersoft=compuserve.com at lists.celestial.com]
On Behalf Of Jose Lerebours
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 9:07 PM
To: George Simon; filePro Mailing List
Subject: Re: Printing to remote printers

Have you tried setting the printer on the filePro server itself as a
local printer pointing to the IP address by creating a TCP/IP port and
then setting a filePro printer to print to it?

filePro should be able to print to ANY printer defined within or
accessible to the network.  That being said, it is possible that it
will not print if the printer is a WINDOWS only printer (I am not sure
how WINDOWS version of fp is dealing with that).

Also, you could point to a device by its FQDN or IP by using \\FQDN\
or \\IP ADDRESS\ ...  Not sure if filePro could handle this method ...

Regards,


Jose Lerebours
954 559 7186



On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 7:17 PM, George Simon <george at flowersoftusa.com>
wrote:
> Can FilePro for Windows print to printers, local or remote, using an IP
> address?
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