Delays and pauses printing direct to printer in WIN...

Edward,

This is a solution I found on the net.
Please note I HAVEN'T TESTED IT.
In particular way, take care using RegEdit: it could be rather dangerous.

1) in REGEDIT ( START- click : Hkey_local_machine
then click : System
then click : CurrentControlSet
then click : Control
somewhere at the bottom of the control list Click: WOW
in LPT_timeout property change it to 3

2) Go to SYSTEM.INI file
in [386enh] section search [Network] if it does not exist enter the
following :

[Network]
PrintBufTime=10
[IFSMGR]
PrintBufTime=10

This should set the timeout to 10 seconds. Do not set too low the value or
the printer could start printing before the end of the DOS print job.

Anyway, if your DOS app. can print to a file, I suggest you use Printfil to
send it to the Windows printer. (Even if it cannot, you could capture the
LPT output)

Regards,
Davide

Printfil - Windows Printing System for Applications
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Many Many THANKS. The software supplier insisting us for Windows 98. May God Bless You Devide - Raizada HariOm, New Delhi, India

I understand where DOS may not close the printer port.
This printer worked properly under Windows 98 and direct
to printer; where documents would print immediately and
there was no delays or pauses. Obviously XP is handling
the printer/driver differently. One would think that if
DOS did not close the printer, the XP driver should leave
control of the printer to the DOS application program and
printing would remain immediate from the DOS application
until such time that the DOS program did close the port.

Thanks for your reply.

Any ideas on what could be changed to make it work
correctly under XP?

after the end of the

Edward,

Maybe your DOS software is not closing the printer port after the end of the
print job.
In this case Windows will wait for a timeout value before to print the job.

Regards,
Davide Guolo

Printfil - Windows Printing System for Applications
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