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Matt
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« on: December 03, 2008, 03:32:55 PM »

How can I get Filepro 5.0 to print to a USB printer?  It will only recognize LPT1.  I have an HP P1006 laserjet that only has a USB connection.  Will an adaptor work?  Thanks for any help.
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« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2008, 01:08:31 PM »

Matt,

I believe that the 1xxx series of HP LaserJets are "Windows Only" printers and are therefore problematic with filePro. Those printers expect your print job to be preprocessed by a windows printer driver. The fact that it only has a USB port  is a minor issue.

If you are running filePro on a windows machine, you can use the "WIN:printername" syntax for the destination command, and that will enable communications wirh the printer . That would work fine if the printer had a brain.

You can have filePro generate RTF code which is sent to a windows word processor(Atlantis maybe), and printed as a normal windows print job from there. See the RTF material in the fp manual.

Alternatively, there is a commercial piece of software called "Print Wizard" that helps with this problem, and you can go to    http://www.anzio.com   to look into it.

Really, the best advice I can give is for you to purchase a printer that has an internal PCL5 interpreter.


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