First post, by Skip94
Hi all
I'll start by saying I'm very much a novice with DOS, I grew up in the W98 and XP era, so I'm still learning.
A couple times now I have tried to get my IBM 5152 printer working through DOS with no success. This is mostly just for a basic test of the parallel port on various PCs I've been restoring.
I know the printer works, as in Windows 95, I can print no issues.
But no idea what I'm doing in DOS. From the googling I have done, I am just doing "PRINT C:\xxxxx.txt /D:LPT1". Xxxxx.txt then shows in the print queue, but nothing from the printer. "Dir > LPT1" also does nothing.
Checkit complains about the printer not responding.
This could be faulty hardware, but this is the 2nd time this has happened, so I wonder if its something silly that I'm missing.
Any thoughts, or more tests to do?
Cheers
Andrew