Re: LPT1 to USB Printer Won't print

That's correct. LPT1 is a real port which the USB is not. USB is software-driven. You'll have to obtain a PCI serial/parallel expansion card so the computer has a real port to work with.

Regards,

-=Jon

Bill Ding wrote:

I have a shiny new HP LJ 1020 USB printer attached to an XP workstation.

The printer is shared, and my trusty old Clipper program's batch file
attaches the printer to lpt1:
net use lpt1 \\x\hplaserj /persistent:yes

Everything looks good, the program prints to lpt1, no errors. The
print job file shows up in the printer's queue, but... it doesn't print.
Not only that, but it won't delete and it won't let any other print jobs
through... the only way I can get it to delete is to power cycle the
printer.

Actually, I have two instances of this: one at a customer's site, running
XP Pro, and one at my office, running XP Home; both behave identically.

The printer setup has been tested as spooled-immediate, spooled-wait,
and raw. There is a response from the printer (internal noises), but no
page prints and the print job neither completes nor can it be deleted.

I don't have any other USB printers to try - is this problem with the
printer or with XP?



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