TCP/IP printing on Windows 98 PC

[Weezie62]

I am working in an educational environment, and we have the teachers set up on Citrix boxes. The OS on those boxes is Windows 98. We were having a problem in that when they logged onto Citrix from their Windows 98 PCs, printing through Citrix was very slow. We resolved this issue by setting up the network printer on LPT1, telling the PC that it was an HP LaserJet 4 (regardless of what the printer actually is, since LaserJet 4 drivers have minimal options and are thus faster over Citrix) and then going to the printer's port and clicking Add Port. From there, we select "HP Standard TCP/IP port," and enter the printer's IP address. This is working beautifully.

The problem is that I've encountered some of these Win98 PCs for which, when I click on Add Port, "HP Standard TCP/IP port" is not an option. How can I get that to be an option on these PCs? I went to HP's website and am not finding a solution--maybe I'm just not seeing it? Thanks for any help you can give!!!

 

[BobMCT]

Perhaps to try to standardize the printing facility on all your desktops you might want to look at a program called WLPRSPL which is available from numerous places (google for wlprspl to find some).

This is a spooling facility what works quite well over a TCP/IP network. Once installed you go to the Windows printer properties and change the output port to "local" and define a disk directory\file name. The Windows prints to this file which wlprspl captures and spools.

Try it out. It might solve all your problems.

Bob