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John_Y_Cannuck Junior Member Offline decidedly un-geek! Posts: 97 Location: Lindsay Ontario Canada Joined: Mar 8^th, 2004	Printing Qa4 to an Epson C82 (ink jet) Mar 18^th, 2004 at 10:46pm	Print Post
	Is this possible? The vanilla driver is a no go. I have downloaded and installed all the new printers. I think I remember seeing a driver modification somewhere, but I can't find it. I'm running Windows XP
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GW Junior Member Offline No personal text Posts: 83 Joined: Dec 16^th, 2003	Re: Printing Qa4 to an Epson C82 (ink jet) Reply #1 - Mar 19^th, 2004 at 9:36pm	Print Post
	John, I believe that printer is a windows only & will not print to dos, check your manual. Also try searching the back issues of Quickanswer(.com) for windows printer problems in Q&A, I remember some articles relating to that.


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John_Y_Cannuck Junior Member Offline decidedly un-geek! Posts: 97 Location: Lindsay Ontario Canada Joined: Mar 8^th, 2004	Re: Printing Qa4 to an Epson C82 (ink jet) Reply #2 - Mar 22^nd, 2004 at 4:05pm	Print Post
	I can print a dos text file with the print command. The printer is connected by wireless network, and is a USB printer to complicate things further. It is my default printer.


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Bob_Hansen Senior Member Members Offline WOW, They have the Internet on computers now! Posts: 1861 Location: Salem, NH Joined: Nov 24^th, 2002	Re: Printing Qa4 to an Epson C82 (ink jet) Reply #3 - Mar 22^nd, 2004 at 7:38pm	Print Post
	USB is the problem here. Q&A Dos versions cannot connect to a local USB printer with Win9x. I can think of three possible options: 1. On NT systems (NT/2K/XP) you can use the "net use" command with the persistent switch set like this: Net Use LPT1 \\MachineName\870Cse /Persistent:yes The printer on the machine must be set up to be shared. Actually you need to do this to Capture Q&A outputs on these NT systems. ============= 2. Another option for WIN9x systems is to put the USB printer on another machine in a network. Share that printer. Now the other machines can use that printer, and Capture the LPT/COM port from Q&A =============== 3. Final option is to see if you can get a parallel port cable for the printer instead. Some have multiple port types available, I am not familiar with your Epson C82 printer.

	Bob Hansen Sesame Database Manager Professional Sensible Solutions Inc. Salem, NH 603-898-8223 Skype ID = sensiblesolutions
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John_Y_Cannuck Junior Member Offline decidedly un-geek! Posts: 97 Location: Lindsay Ontario Canada Joined: Mar 8^th, 2004	Re: Printing Qa4 to an Epson C82 (ink jet) Reply #4 - Mar 22^nd, 2004 at 7:56pm	Print Post
	We have the same printer on another network machine, that is cabled to LPT1 It won't print QA4 either I'm going to try your suggestions anyway, Thanks!


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John_Y_Cannuck Junior Member Offline decidedly un-geek! Posts: 97 Location: Lindsay Ontario Canada Joined: Mar 8^th, 2004	Re: Printing Qa4 to an Epson C82 (ink jet) Reply #5 - Mar 22^nd, 2004 at 8:32pm	Print Post
	Ok I give up, where do you enter: Net Use LPT1 \\MachineName\870Cse /Persistent:yes ? I can't even remember where to capture a Port. XP is the system.


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Bob_Hansen Senior Member Members Offline WOW, They have the Internet on computers now! Posts: 1861 Location: Salem, NH Joined: Nov 24^th, 2002	Re: Printing Qa4 to an Epson C82 (ink jet) Reply #6 - Mar 22^nd, 2004 at 9:44pm	Print Post
	Quote: Ok I give up, where do you enter: Net Use LPT1 \\MachineName\870Cse /Persistent:yes Go to a Command Prompt. If you type NET VIEW you will be able to see what resources are available. You will be able to see the MachineName and the Computer Description. It will be prefaced with two backslashes like: "\\MachineName . Computer Description." If you then type NET VIEW \\MachineName then you will see a listing of the shared resources on that machine. Look under the column labeled "Type" for "Print" to identify the correct name for the printer to be captured. Now you have the information you need to type Net Use LPT1 \\MachineName\PrinterName /Persistent:yes Once it has been entered, you should not need to do that again. You can see what the current settings are at any time by going to the Command Prompt and typing NET USE. XP does not have Capture like you may know from WIN9x. Doing the NET USE will do the Capture for you. Remember that Q&A has LPT1,LPT2, LPT3, COM1, and COM2 as ports. If you are using any of these then you must enter a separate NET USE line for each of them. It may also be helpful to modify the displayed Name (Not the Shared Name) of the Computer to show the port it captures. Example: "870Cse" becomes "870Cse (LPT1)" You can also "pipe" the NET USE results to a file and parse the file to make decisions about commands and/or change the network settings on the fly. But that is another discussion all its own. Not for here today.

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John_Y_Cannuck Junior Member Offline decidedly un-geek! Posts: 97 Location: Lindsay Ontario Canada Joined: Mar 8^th, 2004	Re: Printing Qa4 to an Epson C82 (ink jet) Reply #7 - Mar 23^rd, 2004 at 5:24pm	Print Post
	Thanks! That cured two of the three machines! They print perfectly! Unfortunately, the one machine that it didn't work on is the one I need the most That's the one with a direct LPT3 cable connection to the printer. I wonder if I made a mistake with the net use command, but it won't let me change it, something like "already in use" comes up. How do you cancel the "Net Use" Command? So I can try again? Yes, I remember "piping" I'm old enough to have used DOS quite a bit.


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John_Y_Cannuck Junior Member Offline decidedly un-geek! Posts: 97 Location: Lindsay Ontario Canada Joined: Mar 8^th, 2004	Re: Printing Qa4 to an Epson C82 (ink jet) Reply #8 - Mar 23^rd, 2004 at 7:51pm	Print Post
	Man is this FUN The accounting program now tries to print to the wrong printer! I figure out how to use the delete switch, and am now back to stage One


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Bob_Hansen Senior Member Members Offline WOW, They have the Internet on computers now! Posts: 1861 Location: Salem, NH Joined: Nov 24^th, 2002	Re: Printing Qa4 to an Epson C82 (ink jet) Reply #9 - Mar 24^th, 2004 at 2:05am	Print Post
	Quote: How do you cancel the "Net Use" Command? So I can try again? Try this: NET USE LPT1 /DELETE /YES or NET USE \\MachineName\PrinterName /DELETE /YES What do you mean by: Quote: direct LPT3 cable connection to the printer. Do you have a physical LPT3 on your machine? If Yes, that should be connected as a Windows printer first. Then that printer can be used with a NET USE (Capture) to LPT3. You can have multiple connections to the same resource. This is OK: NET USE LPT1 \\MachineName\PrinterName NET USE LPT3 \\MachineName\PrinterName To print in Landscape, just make a Windows printer default to Landscape mode. And use that printer to capture the Landscape LPT from Q&A Also remember to ues the PERSISTENT switch so you don't have to do this every time you start your system.

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Bob_Hansen Senior Member Members Offline WOW, They have the Internet on computers now! Posts: 1861 Location: Salem, NH Joined: Nov 24^th, 2002	Re: Printing Qa4 to an Epson C82 (ink jet) Reply #10 - Mar 24^th, 2004 at 2:15am	Print Post
	Quote: The accounting program now tries to print to the wrong printer! Is the Accounting program also a DOS program? If Yes, it is going to use the same Captures that you set for Q&A. LPT1 will be the same printer for both programs..... LPTx will be the same printer for both programs......... If it is a Windows program, then the Net Use commands should not be having any effect. Have you possibly changed the Default Printer? Does your accounting program have default printers set up itself, like QuickBooks? Have you mistakenly changed or deleted a printer that was defined there?

	Bob Hansen Sesame Database Manager Professional Sensible Solutions Inc. Salem, NH 603-898-8223 Skype ID = sensiblesolutions
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John_Y_Cannuck Junior Member Offline decidedly un-geek! Posts: 97 Location: Lindsay Ontario Canada Joined: Mar 8^th, 2004	Re: Printing Qa4 to an Epson C82 (ink jet) Reply #11 - Mar 24^th, 2004 at 2:57pm	Print Post
	The system has three computers, on a wireless network. One computer has a direct LPT3 cable connection to an Epson Stylus C82 One of the others has a Usb Connection to the same Model printer, and one computer has no connections except through the network. I have resolved the issue as follows. I found that none of the computers were using LPT2, so I constructed a net Use command on each computer to direct the printout to the USB printer, using net use lpt2 ..... Then I told QA4 to print to Epson Stylus ... on Lpt2 on each machine. It works on all machines! Thanks for your help!


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GJK Junior Member Offline Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas Posts: 80 Location: Kankakee. Il Joined: Apr 22^nd, 2003	Re: Printing Qa4 to an Epson C82 (ink jet) Reply #12 - Mar 24^th, 2004 at 7:32pm	Print Post
	Most Ink Jet Printers emulate the HP deskjet. I would set the QA printer driver to run the "HP deskjet" driver and then try to do the print job.


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