in reply to Printing directly to a printer

I think you need the colon after the device name (e.g. LPT1:)

/J\

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Re^2: Printing directly to a printer
by merrymonk (Hermit) on Apr 08, 2005 at 16:40 UTC
    Many thanks for your suggestion which I have now tried
    and variations such as leaving the > off at the beginning
    This did not print but it moved a step forward since the open
    failed. I also tried putting the : at the beginning
    but this was as originally but no file was written to.
    Looking at the port for the printer it describes it as a Virtual Printer Port for USB
    I do not know if this affects what should be done to make it work
    Do you have any more ideas?
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