Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!boulder!seri!wind55!marshall From: marshall@wind55.seri.gov (Marshall L. Buhl) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Problems Printing... Message-ID: Date: 27 Aug 90 17:30:29 GMT References: <292600028@trsvax> Sender: news@seri.gov (news) Organization: Solar Energy Research Institute Lines: 40 jbh@trsvax.UUCP writes: >I recently experienced a problem printing under Windows 3.0. Using a >parallel printer cable that did not use all of the lines, attempts to print >on one 386 machine resulted in a 'Cannot print to LPT1' message. The DOS >Print command worked fine, as did other applications, using this cable. >When another cable that did carry all of the signals to the printer was >used, Windows printed OK. Also, when the 'bad' cable was put onto another >machine (386sx), attempts to print from Windows 3.0 resulted in form feeds, >with nothing being printed. Once again, the DOS Print command, as well as >other applications, printed OK. >Does anyone know what is going on? Is Windows 3.0 bypassing the INT17 call >used by DOS? Could it be going to the port directly? >Please EMAIL me or post. Inquiring mind want to know %-) >Brad Wow. I went through this with MS just Friday. How timely. I just decided to use a different cable. Apparently, Win3 is more particular about the wiring of the cable than DOS. The MS tech said that I could try a different port setting that would use a more DOS-like driver. I had to add a line to my WIN.INI file under the [ports] section: LPT1.PRN= Note: there is no ':' like the others in your WIN.INI. I never tried this, but you might give it a shot. Now that I think about it, this looks like it would print to a file called 'LPT1.PRN'. Maybe you'd have to use the DOS PRINT command to print it later. I did have a print file set up and had told the tech so. Maybe this is a special name that actually uses DOS to copy the file to the printer. Hope this helped! Marshall -- Marshall L. Buhl, Jr. EMAIL: marshall@seri.gov Senior Computer Missionary VOICE: (303)231-1014 Wind Research Branch 1617 Cole Blvd., Golden, CO 80401-3393 Solar Energy Research Institute Solar - safe energy for a healthy future