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Xeratul

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USB Printing
« on: March 01, 2006, 09:04:02 AM »
Is there a way to connect to a USB printer? Does DOS have support for USB? So far I only understand it can connect to LPT1 Printers.
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Re: Connecting to USB Printer
« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2006, 09:40:55 AM »
A USB printer is generally known as a Windows printer so it's unuseable in DOS.
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Re: Connecting to USB Printer
« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2006, 04:27:07 PM »
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A USB printer is generally known as a Windows printer so it's unuseable in DOS.

Ugh. >:(

So say I'm using Windows XP and I'm in cmd.exe, but I only have a USB printer.

Is there anyway I can directly print something?  :-? Without using an outside program?

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Re: Connecting to USB Printer
« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2006, 04:57:00 PM »
CMD is an emulator so your printer should work fine. How you would output to it is another matter. Personally, I think I would redirect from PRN: to a file and print that out of a Windows application.
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    Re: Connecting to USB Printer
    « Reply #4 on: March 01, 2006, 10:02:08 PM »
    What do you want to print?
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    Re: Connecting to USB Printer
    « Reply #5 on: March 02, 2006, 07:54:55 AM »
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    What do you want to print?

    Oh, nothing just curious if it could be done.
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