igielski@mmm.UUCP (Tom Igielski) (12/03/85)
It seems that there is no standard DOS software available to drive a serial printer off of one of the COM ports. Within a short while, my printer data buffer overruns, and I get garbage and lose characters. Does anyone know if there is a way to drive a serial printer from DOS (with the Print command). I would be interested in any third party or public domain software to do the job. Thank you.... Tom Igielski
tj@utcs.uucp (tj) (12/05/85)
The problem lies in the handshaking. DOS does none for you. AST superspool print spool software works fine for this, it allows Xon/Xoff handshaking. the other approach is to run the serial port at a speed that the printer can keep up with. Slightly lower throughput but a vanilla solution. t.jones
keifer@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU (12/06/85)
DOS 3.1 PRINT Command: PRINT filenames ... /D:COM1 should do the trick if your printer handshaking is set up correctly. Or, if you don't like that one, try MODE lpt1=com1 for the same effect. (Assuming you're using COM1.) G. P. Seaburg Engineering Psychology Research Lab c/o K. Keifer Univ. of Illinois
bobm@hp-pcd.UUCP (bobm) (12/11/85)
It's ugly, but... A cheap solution is to use a terminal emulator that can do a straight ASCII (i.e. non-protocol, except for XON/XOFF handshaking) "upload" to a host. I have used several emulators (VDTE, Kermit, PC 2622) as "printer drivers" to a HP LaserJet with no problem. But WHY doesn't the PC support serial devices better at the driver level?!? Bob May HP Portable Computer Division hplabs!hp-pcd!bobm Relay-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site sdcrdcf.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles - hp 1.2 08/01/83; site hp-pcd.UUCP Path: sdcrdcf!hplabs!hp-pcd!bobm From: bobm@hp-pcd.UUCP (bobm) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: Serial Printer user on PC Message-ID: <15200005@hpcvlo.UUCP> Date: 11 Dec 85 18:09:00 GMT Date-Received: 19 Dec 85 10:51:47 GMT References: <346@mmm.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett-Packard - Corvallis, OR Lines: 13 Nf-ID: #R:mmm:-34600:hpcvlo:15200005:000:423 Nf-From: hpcvlo!bobm Dec 11 10:09:00 1985 It's ugly, but... A cheap solution is to use a terminal emulator that can do a straight ASCII (i.e. non-protocol, except for XON/XOFF handshaking) "upload" to a host. I have used several emulators (VDTE, Kermit, PC 2622) as "printer drivers" to a HP LaserJet with no problem. But WHY doesn't the PC support serial devices better at the driver level?!? Bob May HP Portable Computer Division hplabs!hp-pcd!bobm
hrs@homxb.UUCP (H.SILBIGER) (12/27/85)
I occasionally use the Brother EP44 typewriter as a printer when I nedd real letter quality. It has a serial interface. I had to call Brother to get the cable configuration, it's has some strange strapping. It now works fine using the print command on the PC. When I used the Brother as a terminal, I just plugged it into the modem and it workrd. Herman Silbiger ihnp4!homxb!hrs