Re: Printing labels in Millennium Cataloging to an unattachedshareddot-matrix printer - is it possible ?

["Robert F. Rapp" <rfrapp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Gingery wrote:

> 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.
>

Is "direct text printing " checked?  Try that; it *might* work.  I think that may
fool Millennium into thinking it is really an attached printer, even though it is
an attached shared printer (as opposed to a networked printer).

Rob

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Robert F. Rapp
Systems Operations Librarian
Menomonee Falls Public Library
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