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HOWTO: Print to a USB Printer from DOS in Windows XP Comments (325) Share Scott Hanselman has a post on his weblog about getting a shared network printer to work in DOS. Extremely important warning: These methods work only if you already have a WPDOS printer driver that works with your printer and you have already installed the Windows printer driver for your USB or wireless printer and you have successfully printed to it from a. Dos to usb printer free download. KL-G2 Printer Utility This program prints a PBM file using a Casio KL-G2 Label Printer connected via USB on Linux. Getting an old DOS program to work with a USB printer. Other readers suggested printing to a file first. Brian says: 'I found the easiest solution, if rather roundabout, was to use the PRN2FILE. DOS2USB Captures MS-DOS Print Job from LPT or PRN and Redirect it to any Windows Printer like USB printer, GDI printer, Network printer, Fax Printer, Virtual Printer, IP Based Printer with ANSI, OEM, Latin, Greek, Russian, Portuguese, Turkish and Hebrew Code Page (Language) Support.

While most businesses use Windows-based applications, some entrepreneurs still use legacy DOS-based programs that they find useful. Whether it's because the application is no longer being developed or the DOS program simply does what you need it to do, installing a Windows application might not be necessary or even possible. In most cases, Windows allows you to use older DOS applications by simply opening a command prompt and using the program as you normally would. However, if you need to print from a DOS application to a USB printer, you must enable certain compatibility and network settings before the older program can communicate with the printer through the Windows print spooler.

Create a Shortcut for DOS Program

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Right-click anywhere on the open Windows desktop and click “New,” then “Shortcut” on the pop-up menu. The Create Shortcut window appears on screen. Click the “Browse” button, then navigate to the folder an executable file for the DOS application.

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Highlight the executable file, then click the “OK” button. Click the “Next” button in the Create Shortcut window.

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Enter a name for the application in the “Type a name for the shortcut” box, then click the “Finish” button.

Enable Compatibility Settings

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Right-click the desktop icon you created for the DOS application, then click “Properties” on the pop-up menu. Click the “Compatibility” tab in the Properties window.

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Enable the “Run this program in compatibility mode” option, and select Windows 95 in the drop-down list below the option label.

Enable Microsoft Loopback Adapter

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Click “Start,” type “hdwwiz” into the search box and then press “Enter.” In the Add Hardware Wizard window, click the “Next” button. Click the “Install the hardware that I manually select from a list (Advanced)” option, then click “Next.”

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Click and select “Network Adapters” in the Common Hardware Types list, then click “Next.” Select “Microsoft” in the Manufacturer list of the Select Network Adapter window. Click “Microsoft Loopback Adapter” in the Network Adapter list, then click the “Next” button.

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Click “Next” again in the Hardware to Install window and wait a few seconds for Windows to install the loopback adapter. Click “Finish” when prompted to complete the installation of the loopback adapter.

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Click “Start Control Panel Network and Sharing Center Change Adapter Settings.” In the Network Adapters window, right-click the “Microsoft Loopback Adapter” icon, then “Properties” on the pop-up list. Disable all protocol options in the “This connection uses the following items” list except the “Internet Protocol Version 4 TCP/IPv4” option. Select the “Internet Protocol Version 4 TCP/IPv4” option, then click the “Properties” button.

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Click and enable the “Use the following IP address” option. Enter 192.168.1.101 in the “IP Address” field and “255.255.255.0” in the Subnet Mask field. Leave the Default Gateway field blank. Click “OK” to close the Internet Protocol Version 4 window, then close the Local Area Connection Properties window.

Set Up Your Printer

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Click “Start,” then click “Devices and Printers.” Right-click the device name of the USB printer in the “Printers and Faxes” window, then click “Printer Properties” on the pop-up menu.

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Click the “Sharing” tab, then enable the “Share this printer” option.

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Enter a network share name for the printer in the text box below the “Share this printer” option label, then click “OK. Close the Devices and Printers window.

Enable Port Redirection for the Printer

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Click “Start,” type “cmd” into the search box and press the “Enter” key. If prompted with a User Account Control Window asking if you would like to run the program as an administrator, click the “Yes” button. A new Command Prompt window opens.

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Type command syntax at the Command Prompt, replacing NetworkNameOfComputer with the Windows network name for your computer. Change Printer_NetworkShare_Name with the share name you created earlier in the Properties window for the printer:

“Net Use LPT1:NetworkNameOfComputerPrinter_NetworkShare_Name /Persistent: Yes”

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Press the “Enter” key and close the Command Prompt window.

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Start the DOS program by clicking the desktop shortcut you created. Click “File,” then “Print” on the DOS program menu bar or press “Alt-P” to print a document from the DOS program to the USB printer using the Windows print spooler.

Tips

• To avoid having to run the Net Use command from the command prompt every time you print from the DOS application, create a batch file and shortcut to run the command syntax automatically. Open Windows Notepad and create a new text document file containing the following code:
• Echo Off
• “Net Use LPT1:NetworkNameOfComputerPrinter_NetworkShare_Name /Persistent: Yes”
• Exit
• Rename the NetworkNameOfComputer and Printer_NetworkShare_Name values with your information. Save the text files to the desktop as “DOS_USB_Print.bat'. Double-click the icon before running the DOS program to enable printing to the USB printer through the Windows print spooler.
• If you don’t know the network name for the computer, find it by clicking “Start,” “Control Panel,” then “System.” The computer network name is near the bottom of the System window in the “Computer name, domain, and workgroup settings” section.

About the Author

Jeff Grundy has been writing computer-related articles and tutorials since 1995. Since that time, Grundy has written many guides to using various applications that are published on numerous how-to and tutorial sites. Born and raised in South Georgia, Grundy holds a Master of Science degree in mathematics from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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Hi there all,
I have several old DOS programs which I still use for various reasons (eg Wordstar 5). I also have several programs I've written using GWBASIC and MBASIC. These programs were all for a DOS environment and USB wasn't probably even thought of then. I want to keep using these programs but modern computers and laptops tend not to have serial or parallel ports that older printers can connect to. Also at some point my trusty parallel DataProducts Laser printer will probably give up the ghost. The programs I have written myself contain lots of control codes to control print size, formatting etc and are written for an IBM ProPrinter emulation.
So the question is 'How can I redirect/force/get around, to make my DOS programs to print to a USB printer'
Thanks .. John N

Edited by jnewell, 21 January 2012 - 12:14 PM.