Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Michael Hung" <mhkhung@y...> 
wrote:
> 
> Just a thought.. I am not in front of my printers (they are at home)
> so I can't test right now..  Have you tried sending output directly to
> "USB001:" (With a colon at the end)? Since printing is supposed to be
> as simple as writing to LPT1:, with QTR doing all the work of the
> driver, it might work. (How to figure out what port to which printer
> automatically is another story, but we can solve them one by one).
> (From the Epson driver or "net share", you can tell what USB number it
> is if you have multiple USB printers)

Michael,

The simple redirect only works on LPT#:  names.  The USB001:  just
creates a file with that name.

I've tried:
\\computer\sharename
\\127.0.0.1\sharename

dir \\computer\C$
dir \\127.0.0.1\C$

They all seem to work with the network but fail without it.

> 
> In the mean time I am installing the latest device driver kit from
> Microsoft.. 

I've seen a little of this but I'm pretty lost on it without some help.

Roy

> 
> Michael
> 
> > As I guess you know, I'm getting to the USB port by simply redirecting
> > output to \\computername\sharename.   This works OK as long as a network
> > exists.  But obviously this is one of the major hassles with getting QTR
> > running.  Systems that are sometimes connected and sometimes not are
> > particularly problematic.