Dos Printing

[hashashin]

Hi all, I have two xp pro pc's on a network that print to each other’s printers Oki 321. They print via the net use command “net use lpt2 \\username\oki321 “under windows they print fine and quick but dos (dir > lpt2) can take up to 30 seconds has anyone come across this problem I have other users that are fine.

 

[linney]

This tip is on this site, may be worth a try?

http://www.onecomputerguy.com/windowsxp_tips.htm#fast_dos_print

Faster DOS Printing
Submitted 6/21/03

If you are experiencing slow printing for DOS programs with Windows2000

Go Start | Run | Regedit
Click Hkey_Local_Machine
Click on System
Click CurrentControlSet
Click Control
Go to the bottom of this part of the list and click WOW
Click LPT timeout and change it to a 3
Submitted by Steve Cohen

http://www.google.com/search?q=30+second+delay+when+printing+dos+xp&rls=com.microsoft:

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=3...TF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1&um=1&sa=N&tab=wg

 

[hashashin]

hi linney, Thanks for the reply I have already tried this fix with no luck It's just between these two pc's and I cant understand why? I mapped the two printers to the server and it prints as soon as I press return very strange I'm sure it's somthing to do with either the firewall settings or software previously inslalled.

Joe.

 

[linney]

Are there any clues in the Event Viewer?

 

[JockMullin]

Hi, Joe

Do those machines have a physical LPT2 device? If so, configure it as LPT1.

Is there a windows printer defined as a network printer using the same port? If so disable spooling (print direct).

If you throw out a form feed char after your pint data does that cause it to print sooner?

Jock