Instead of my mumble jumble, have a look-see he
http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/jame...73664+28353475

or: http://tinyurl.com/235suz

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"Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message
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My fuzziness... I figure if you want to print from DOS, you need DOS print drivers.
I wouldn't expect modern printers to be able to do that, though I don't understand
DOS printing all that well, not at all, in fact. Does an app just send the data to
the LPT port? What converts it to PRN?

My color laser printers (HP4550 and Konika-Minolta 3300) both take PS and PCL. Do
they first convert it to PCL? My understanding is that they could handle both PS
and PCL directly, without converting.

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"Brian A." gonefish'n@afarawaylake wrote in message
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I don't think DOS drivers are the problem, the problem is printing from DOS to a
USB printer and USB is supported in DOS. Frank has posted what the OP needs to
do, set the printer as shared and direct the LPT1 port, which is supported in DOS,
to the printer via the net use command.

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"Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message
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But do they have DOS drivers? Honest, I don't know much about this aspect, and my
laser printers are at the other house.

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"Brian A." gonefish'n@afarawaylake wrote in message
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I don't know about the OP's laser printer, but all of my printers here have the
option "Print to file" which does save it as a .prn file.

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"Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message
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The man needs to print to file (a PRN file, I think, not text file) from a DOS
app, something that he can then send to the printer from Windows. Generic Text
to File won't help. Unfortunately, Jerry knows more about it than I or most
others here do.

Hey, Jerry... I have a couple of old dot matrix printers... or maybe my Dad has
them now. Might be the simplest solution to find a used one, not that it's that
simple, g. You still have an LPT port?

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"RobertVA" wrote in message
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Jerry Bank wrote:
In article ,
says...
You requirement is not quite clear. Does the file you are creating have to
be a print file for a particular type of printer? This would a file that
you then transfer to another machine that has that type of printer attached,
and copy to that printer in order to print it.

Or are you trying to use a print procedure to create a certain document
type, such as plain text or postscript or PDF?

Let me explain precisely what I am trying to do. I have an ancient dos
program that I use to do accounting for a very small business. I would like
to continue using it. However, while it was able to print its reports to my
old dot-matrix printer, it really can't handle my current laser printer.

The program itself only prints to lpt1. Previously I used the simple program
prn2dos, which sent the printing to a file, which I then edited and printed
out in Windows. Since upgrading my computer it no longer works.

I have been trying to find a way to do this task. I did find a program
called dos2usb, but it only works erratically.

I would very much appreciate any suggestions as to how I can solve this
problem.

Thanks.
Have your tried installing the Generic Text to file "printer"

You would only need to click a file name and press the "Enter" key when the
file name dialog appears.