Printing labels in Millennium Cataloging to an unattached shared dot-matrix printer - is it possible ?

[Jim Gingery <jim.gingery@xxxxxxxxxx>]

III ListServ,

We have a situation where a Millennium Cataloging computer is trying to 
print labels to a dot matrix printer, but the printer is not attached. The 
labels will not print.

The printer is physically attached to someone else's computer about 10 
yards away. The printer is setup to be shared to the MilCat computer via 
Windows.

What is puzzling is that the same kind of setup works fine when printing 
labels in the character-based system, i.e. labels print to the shared 
printer from the unattached computer, but it will not work via Millennium 
Cataloging.

Is it possible to get this type of printing configuration to work in MilCat 
or will the MilCat computer need to have their own attached printer ? This 
is obviously not the typical model of networked printing when a network 
printer is assigned an IP and a group of computers can print to it via 
Workstation JetDirect.

We do not believe this is a Print Wizard issue either, since we do not need 
Print Wizard when typically printing to dot matrix, attached printers.
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Jim Gingery	    	       Library Systems Administrator
jim.gingery@xxxxxxxxxx  	Milwaukee County Federated Library System
(414) 286-5934 	    	709 North Eighth St.
(414) 286-3209 fax  	       Milwaukee, WI  53233-2414
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