Printing to USB printer from DOS

Question

I have been told that I can print from a DOS or Windows 2000/XP
workstation to a USB printer attached to a Windows workstation. The
program I am running is Accpac Plus DOS based version which is loaded on
the Novell Server. Accpac has older version HP print drivers, from what I
understand the USB printer somehow emulates the older print driver.
I am currently printing to a Canon BJC265SP printer connected by LPT1 to a
workstation, I would prefer to update to a later printer, but need to keep
the current version of Accpac and Novell.
I have Novell 4.11 SP9
The Novell tech I use does not know if this can be done. All help would be
appreciated.
Thanks
Colin Aitken
[email protected]
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Answer 1

If you're able to put the printer in NDS you can route the jobs through a
queued object then to a NDPS object. This is done by configuring the pc
to print to a queue based printer, then with the same physical printer's
NDPS object add the queue name in the "Service Jobs From NetWare Queues"
field found under Jobs button - Spooling Configuration.
This allows older DOS apps to use the NDPS object.
Hope this helps.
Matthew
> I have been told that I can print from a DOS or Windows 2000/XP
> workstation to a USB printer attached to a Windows workstation. The
> program I am running is Accpac Plus DOS based version which is loaded on
> the Novell Server. Accpac has older version HP print drivers, from what
I
> understand the USB printer somehow emulates the older print driver.
>
> I am currently printing to a Canon BJC265SP printer connected by LPT1 to
a
> workstation, I would prefer to update to a later printer, but need to
keep
> the current version of Accpac and Novell.
>
> I have Novell 4.11 SP9
>
> The Novell tech I use does not know if this can be done. All help would
be
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Colin Aitken
> [email protected]
> remove XXXX
>
>