Printing to USB on Vista from DOS?

I desperately need to print from my Dos-program to a printer that is
connected with USB.

Seems like the "net use lpt1 \\computername\printername" in Vista does not
work at all! My Dos-program just gets a fatal error when trying to print.
Tried various programs like dosprn, but none seems to work on Vista.

My setup is as follows: 2 computers connected trough a router. 1 printer,
connected with USB to one of the computers. The printer is shared, so that
both computers can use it.

What to do? Go back to XP?

On Feb 13, 10:14 am, Jonne70 <Jonn...@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

> Seems like the "net use lpt1 \\computername\printername" in Vista does not
> work at all! My Dos-program just gets a fatal error when trying to print.
> Tried various programs likedosprn, but none seems to work on Vista.

you may want to have a look at Printfil: http://www.printfil.com

For any problem you may have on your Vista machine with Printfil,
please contact us directly: http://www.printfil.com/esupp.htm

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Bruce has good solutions

http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/printfromdos.htm

DOS in XP (as well as Vista) does not support direct USB printing.




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Alan Morris
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"Jonne70" <Jonne70@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:83CE6691-9671-4BE0-BE45-0F95F960A028@microsoft.com...
>I desperately need to print from my Dos-program to a printer that is
> connected with USB.
>
> Seems like the "net use lpt1 \\computername\printername" in Vista does not
> work at all! My Dos-program just gets a fatal error when trying to print.
> Tried various programs like dosprn, but none seems to work on Vista.
>
> My setup is as follows: 2 computers connected trough a router. 1 printer,
> connected with USB to one of the computers. The printer is shared, so that
> both computers can use it.
>
> What to do? Go back to XP?

Thank you both for your replies.

I now understand why I could no longer print from DOS: the Brother printer
driver supplied by Windows Vista is a Winprinter driver only, with crappy
dpi as
well.

So I will have to wait for a high-quality driver from Brother that supports
pcl5/6, because the net use trick cannot work with a winprinter.

I tried Printfil, but so far no luck, it doesn't seem to work with Vista.
Maybe their support will be able to help me.

"Alan Morris [MSFT]" <alanmo@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:%237mpmD6THHA.528@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Bruce has good solutions
>
> http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/printfromdos.htm
>
> DOS in XP (as well as Vista) does not support direct USB printing.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Alan Morris
> Windows Printing Team
> Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here:
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowto
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
>
> "Jonne70" <Jonne70@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:83CE6691-9671-4BE0-BE45-0F95F960A028@microsoft.com...
>>I desperately need to print from my Dos-program to a printer that is
>> connected with USB.
>>
>> Seems like the "net use lpt1 \\computername\printername" in Vista does
>> not
>> work at all! My Dos-program just gets a fatal error when trying to print.
>> Tried various programs like dosprn, but none seems to work on Vista.
>>
>> My setup is as follows: 2 computers connected trough a router. 1 printer,
>> connected with USB to one of the computers. The printer is shared, so
>> that
>> both computers can use it.
>>
>> What to do? Go back to XP?
>
>

On Feb 14, 10:35 am, "Jonne70" <joni...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I tried Printfil, but so far no luck, it doesn't seem to work with Vista.
> Maybe their support will be able to help me.

yes, it works. Please see http://www.printfil.com/efaq11.htm and
http://www.printfil.com/efaq14.htm

If you still have troubles, we are here to help you.

Regards,
Davide Guolo
aSwIt s.r.l.
--------------------------------------------------------------
Printfil - Windows Printing System for Applications
http://www.printfil.com
Odbc4All - Connection to ODBC Data Sources for any Application
http://www.aSwIt.com/odbc4all
@Kill - Batch Close Windows Applications - Freeware
http://www.aSwIt.com/akill
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