Kent G
May 28th 03, 12:00 AM
Wondering if someone might be able to help me with this...
I have a Xerox inkjet multifunction machine (XK50cx)that I
have been trying to both 1) print to from an old DOS
program and 2) print to from another machine on my home
network. It is attached to my main computer running XP,
the other computer on the network is running Win 98. The
network seems to be working fine in all other respects.
I have used the "net use" command to redirect LPT1 to this
USB printer so that the DOS program can access it. (Found
how to do this in the knoweldge base.) Have also set up
the Win98 machine to access the printer over the network
and both these things seem to work to some degree...
What happens is that when I send a document to print,
(either from the DOS program or from any program on the
other computer) they seem to get to the spooler fine. (No
error messages or anything.) If you leave the print
monitor window open on the Windows XP machine that the
printer is physically attached to you can see the
documents actually "arrive", spool and then disappear. But
that's all that happens. Nothing actually prints.
What the print monitor actually says is "Local Downlevel
Document - Printing" which sits there in the print queue
for varying lengths of time depending on the length of the
document and then simply vanishes without printing.
One other, possibly related, thing... I have recently
started having problems with the "Print Spooler" service
apparently randomly shutting itself down. I think this
occured since I started redircting LPT1 with the "net use"
command. I recently tried ending this and it stopped
happening though this didn't eliminate the problem with
printing from the Win 98 computer.
Anyhow, I apologize for the long winded explanation but I
just wanted to be thorough. Any thoughts?
I have a Xerox inkjet multifunction machine (XK50cx)that I
have been trying to both 1) print to from an old DOS
program and 2) print to from another machine on my home
network. It is attached to my main computer running XP,
the other computer on the network is running Win 98. The
network seems to be working fine in all other respects.
I have used the "net use" command to redirect LPT1 to this
USB printer so that the DOS program can access it. (Found
how to do this in the knoweldge base.) Have also set up
the Win98 machine to access the printer over the network
and both these things seem to work to some degree...
What happens is that when I send a document to print,
(either from the DOS program or from any program on the
other computer) they seem to get to the spooler fine. (No
error messages or anything.) If you leave the print
monitor window open on the Windows XP machine that the
printer is physically attached to you can see the
documents actually "arrive", spool and then disappear. But
that's all that happens. Nothing actually prints.
What the print monitor actually says is "Local Downlevel
Document - Printing" which sits there in the print queue
for varying lengths of time depending on the length of the
document and then simply vanishes without printing.
One other, possibly related, thing... I have recently
started having problems with the "Print Spooler" service
apparently randomly shutting itself down. I think this
occured since I started redircting LPT1 with the "net use"
command. I recently tried ending this and it stopped
happening though this didn't eliminate the problem with
printing from the Win 98 computer.
Anyhow, I apologize for the long winded explanation but I
just wanted to be thorough. Any thoughts?