Help on Printer problem
Richard Hane
yoresoft at sbcglobal.net
Thu Jul 19 09:27:04 PDT 2018
Hi Nancy,
We do use the win:printername format. You maybe correct. I'll check to see what they named them in windows as.
Thank you,Rick
On Thursday, July 19, 2018 10:40 AM, Nancy Palmquist via Filepro-list <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
Rick,
All printers are not created equal. Remember you need a printer that
speaks PCL or you need software like PrintWizard that can translate PCL
to a Graphic for the stupid Windows printers.
If you know your printer speaks PCL directly, then as others suggested
you might need to run appropriate installation steps to properly connect
the printers to your network with the right drivers.
Then renaming them on the computer to match your replaced printer names
so that to filePro they look like the same printer would make the
connection to filepro work. Of course, that assumes you used the
WIN:HPwhateverprinter as a way to connect to the printer. If you used a
network path name or LPT1 or something like that other things might need
to happen.
My preferred method is the WIN:[Windows Printer Name exactly] method
because then the print job is sent to windows and windows is responsible
for moving the job to the printer using the windows established
location. This has always seemed much easier to manage than the other
methods.
Nancy
On 7/19/2018 9:53 AM, Richard Hane via Filepro-list wrote:
> Good morning list,
>
> Although I have been retired for over 3 years, I still get calls on filePro issues. And now a new one.
>
> We have fpodbc 5.0.13, 16 user network version a Windows network. We have about 9 printers on the system all HPs. Most of these are HP-P1606dn. We use fp printer definition HP-2100. This has worked for over 15 years.
>
> For some reason they decided to replace 2 of those printers with HP402DN. All they did was unplug the old printers and plug in the new ones. Now they get no response on the new printers. I don't believe they get any error messages from fp or windows either.
>
> Is there another printer type we should be using in filepro? Anyone other suggestions welcome.
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Rick Hane
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