Your problem is that that you're using a USB printer, rather than a parallel
port printer. MS never added USB support to DOS, even though they actually
continued to make DOS for several years after USB came out (mid-1990's). No
version of DOS today has "native" support for USB (printers, mice,
On what Ralph said:
Thanks for the link, but that didn't really help. It's not set up on a
network and I'm not using windows, just FreeDOS.
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At 06:40 PM 5/17/2012, Kenny wrote:
>So I've been hearing that DOS needs no drivers for a printer.
Again, all that DOS knows about a printer is that it is a (ASCII)
character based device on either parallel or serial port. No driver
needed for that functionality...
> Well, it's not working for
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Kenny wrote:
> So I've been hearing that DOS needs no drivers for a printer. Well, it's not
> working for me. If it helps, I have an HP printer. It's not that new, and
> connects via USB, but other than that, that's all I know. I have no idea what
> to do. And t
So I've been hearing that DOS needs no drivers for a printer. Well, it's not
working for me. If it helps, I have an HP printer. It's not that new, and
connects via USB, but other than that, that's all I know. I have no idea what
to do. And telling me that it's not going to work unless you do som
At 04:54 AM 5/17/2012, Kenny Emond wrote:
>Hey all DOS users and such,
>
>I know I already posted a thread before about setting up a
> shared printer (which by the way, how would you acquire the ip
> address of the printer in DOS? And how again would you say you had
> to use the printer
Hey all DOS users and such,
I know I already posted a thread before about setting up a shared
printer (which by the way, how would you acquire the ip address of the
printer in DOS? And how again would you say you had to use the printer if
you wanted to print something from a DOS computer in
