Thread: Printing problems..........
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Old 02-25-2009, 07:27 PM
Brian Carlton Brian Carlton is offline
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This is still unresolved?

It appears you have no means of telling what the parallel card’s setting are. It also appears there is no software to use to identify or control what settings the card uses.

Therefore i suggest you get a parallel printer card that isn't a POS. Get one of these and put the problem to rest:

http://www.google.com/products?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4DGUS_enUS314US314&q=siig%20parallel%20port&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wf

Siig makes a great line of product…

Btw the error you reported indicates that the OS can’t find the device name (PRN or lpt1)
I discussed the situation with Dell and they agree that there is no possibility of going into the BIOS to reconfigure the IRQ settings.

Furthermore, SIIG also agrees that the computer motherboard would need to be reconfigured for the proper IRQ settings..........it cannot be done on the card. Therefore, the SIIG card would have the identical problem as the current StarTech card.

It does appear that it's impossible to print using an aftermarket parallel interface on a computer that never was originally equipped with one.

Onto the software..........DOStoUSB or Printfil.

Anybody use either one to print from the DOS shell?

At the present time, the printer works properly from Windows.
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