We recently bought 3 units of DX2390 desktop pcs. I installed a pci parallel expansion card for used with epson lq2180. Everything is going well when printing windows based software but when printing with our DOS BASED ACCTG. program it is giving a message "device fault" or we can't print using the dos based program. The expansion card's driver's were installed properly and the epson printer is using LPT3 port which i transferred to LPT1. How can i configure this to print in dos envi? Unfortunately, the program was develop that the person who coded it is long gone. Any suggestion will be appreciated.
You say you are running windows based software, but which version of windows is it? XP or Vista?
The problem may be that Vista does not recognize the DOS based accounting program attempt to send data to the printer.
DOS based programs in the old days would send the data to be printed directly to the printer port.
Windows XP and Vista do not allow this easily, the default is to spool the data.
Try going to Control Panel and Printers, then under the Advanced tab, select "Print directly to the printer".
If that does not work, read this very long document for some ideas (it is oriented towards Word Perfect for DOS) that might work for your situation.
You'll probably have to print the page and mark out anything that doesn't apply because there is so much!
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