Capture printer port in windows 2000

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Reset Post Submit Post. Related Discussions. Related Forums. There are three cases: the printer is a Local Printer and the print device is connected directly to a parallel port e. In this case, you should not have to anything to be able to print from a Command Prompt, from an emulated DOS prompt command. Do steps 1 through 7 below.

Here's the detailed steps: Create a share for the local printer. In the Share name: box, key the name you want to use as the printer's share name. The default is the same as the printer's name, but you may want to change it so that it is short and doesn't have any embedded spaces.

This will make it easier later. On newer Windows systems, Mode 0 is the best choice, even if it's possibile to setup the capture as follows however, even in these systems but it's not practical. In this modes, to capture the LPT output you have to create the "Printfil" virtual printer , as described on the next chapter, then Printfil can automatically capture data sent to the LPT port you choose in its own configuration dialog.

The virtual printer redirects the LPT output to a temporary file on disk, which is also set in the "File to Check" option in the Standard Configuration dialog. This way, after the file has been created by the virtual printer, it's automatically captured by Printfil and sent to the Windows printer chosen in the same configuration dialog. As each single "Printfil" virtual printer can capture a single LPT port to a single temporary file, to capture different LPT ports simultaneously each single Printfil copy running on the PC will have to use a different virtual printer.

Each virtual printer obviously must have a different name, declared in the PFPrinter option please see Chapter 4. The 3 different capturing modes works in different ways. Mode 1 can show an error message if the configuration is not correct, but it's much more dependable by Windows then Mode 2 or 3, which uses a direct connection to the "Printfil" virtual printer. Mode 2 and 3 are particularly useful if some Microsoft security hotfixes are installed on your Windows system for example KB , which could block the capture in Mode 1, by showing an error message.